Singing sweet songs to please himself,

And, through and over everything,

A sense of glad awakening.

The grass, a tip-toe at my ear,

Whispering to me I could hear;

I felt the rain’s cool finger-tips

Brushed tenderly across my lips,

Laid gently on my sealèd sight,

And all at once the heavy night

Fell from my eyes and I could see,—