And lo! a wondrous world of gray

And silver mist before me lay.

The white dews wet my small bare feet,

As I ran thro’ the meadows, sweet

With clover nodding all about,

And sleepy hum-bees creeping out.

And then a strange thing came to pass;

The Sun was sleeping in the grass;

He must have wakened when I came,

For all at once a rosy flame