The rarest things, with wayward will,

Beneath the covert hide them still;

The rarest things, to light of day

Look shortly forth, and break away.

One fleeting moment of delight

I warmed me in her cheering sight,

And short, I ween, the time will be

That I shall parley hold with thee.

Through Snowdon’s mist red beams the day;

The climbing herd-boy chants his lay;