And taper fingers catching at all things,

To bind them all about with tiny rings.

What next? a turf of evening primroses,

O’er which the mind may hover till it dozes;

O’er which it well might take a pleasant sleep,

But that ’tis ever startled by the leap

Of buds into ripe flowers.

John Keats.

TO THE SWEET-BRIER.

Our sweet autumnal western-scented wind