In Gnomes, and Hags, and Elves, and Giants grim,—

If talking Trees and Birds revealed to him,

She saw the flight of Fairyland's fly-wagons,

And magic fishes swim

In puddle ponds, and took old crows for dragons,—

Both were quite drunk from the enchanted flagons;

When as it fell upon a summer's day,

As the old man sat a feeding

On the old babe-reading,

Beside his open street-and parlor door,