And plashing sound of waters. What swift rings

Of mazy insects o’er the shallow tide

Seem, as they glance, to scatter sparks of light

From burnish’d films! And mark yon silvery line

Of gossamer, so tremulously hung

Across the narrow current, from the tuft

Of hazels to the hoary poplar’s bough!

See, in the air’s transparence, how it waves,

Quivering and glistening with each faintest gale,

Yet breaking not—a bridge for fairy shapes,