Overhead the sky of morning

Gives of goodly weather sign;

From the milking to the meadows

Slowly go the lowing kine.

Fall in sparks of fire the dew-drops

From the overburdened leaves;

Flit from bough to bough the peewees;

Hum the mud-wasps at the eaves.

Mists that recent wrapped the valley

Now are sweeping o’er the hills;