Thou art streaming on through their green arcades;

And the quivering leaves that have caught thy glow

Like fire-flies glance to the pools below.

I look’d on the mountains—a vapour lay

Folding their heights in its dark array:

Thou brakest forth, and the mist became

A crown and a mantle of living flame.

I look’d on the peasant’s lowly cot—

Something of sadness had wrapt the spot;

But a gleam of thee on its lattice fell,