The valleys sick with heat?

Let in through all the trees 25

Come the strange rays: the forest depths are bright;

Their sunny-coloured foliage in the breeze

Twinkles, like beams of light.

The rivulet, late unseen,

Where bickering through the shrubs its waters run, 30

Shines with the image of its golden screen,

And glimmerings of the sun.

But ’neath yon crimson tree,