Over their sleepy lids—and so she rais'd

Her aqualine nose above the stream, and gazed.

XVII.

She oped her lips—lips of a gentle blush,

So pale it seem'd near drownèd to a white,—

She oped her lips, and forth there sprang a gush

Of music bubbling through the surface light;

The leaves are motionless, the breezes hush

To listen to the air—and through the night

There come these words of a most plaintive ditty,