While barrèd clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows[28], borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn[29];

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft[30];

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

John Keats.