They creep from the mullen’s velvet screen;

Some on the backs of beetles fly

From the silver tops of moon-touch’d trees,

Where they swing in their cob-web hammocks high,

And rock’d about in the evening breeze;

Some from the hum-bird’s downy nest,

They had driven him out by elfin power,

And pillow’d on plumes of his rainbow breast,

Had slumber’d there till the charmed hour;

Some had lain in a scarp of the rock,