With living snow-drops? circlet bright!

How glorious to this orchard ground!

Who loved the little rock, and set

Upon its head this coronet?

Was it the humour of a child?

Or rather of some gentle maid,

Whose brows, the day that she was styled

The Shepherd-queen, were thus arrayed?

Of man mature, or matron sage?

Or old man toying with his age?