While the tiny buds to its tones replied;

But when the gay music of fairy-glee,

In the clear, calm midnight rose merrily,

And a thousand glancing beings of air,

Like countless gems held their revels there,

It fled from the woods and the flowers away,

And stole to a silent room, where lay

A dying girl:—

Her mournful eyes

Look’d out from their tears on the dark’ning skies,