[The Trout Brook]

The airs that blew from the brink of day

Were fresh and wet with the breath of May.

I heard the babble of brown brooks falling,

And golden-wings in the woodside calling.

Big drops hung from the sparkling eaves;

And through the screen of the thin young leaves

A glint of ripples, a whirl of foam,

Lured and beckoned me out from home.