On the square castle's inner-court's low wall

Like the chine of some extinct animal

Half turned to earth and flowers; and through the haze

(Save where some slender patches of gray maize

Are to be overleaped) that boy has crossed

The whole hill-side of dew and powder-frost

Matting the balm and mountain camomile.

Up and up goes he, singing all the while

Some unintelligible words to beat

The lark, God's poet, swooning at his feet,