Over white roads strewn with leaves,

By the gipsy’s ragged tent,

Rode we to the Tournament.

Over clover wet with dew,

Whence the sky-lark, startled, flew,

Through brown fallows, where the hare

Leapt up from its subtle lair,

Past the mill-stream and the reeds

Where the stately heron feeds,

By the warren’s sunny wall,