All amid the meadows fair;

Shady plants of asphodel,

Are the lodges where we dwell,

Chanting in the leafy bowers,

All the livelong summer hours,

Till the sudden, gusty showers

Send us headlong, helter-skelter,

To the pool to seek for shelter;

Meager, eager, leaping, lunging,

From the sedgy wharfage plunging