And, save the wagon rocking round,

The landscape sleeps without a sound.

The breeze is stopp’d, the lazy bough

Hath not a leaf that danceth now;

The taller grass upon the hill,

And spider’s threads are standing still;

The feathers dropp’d from moorhen’s wing,

Which to the water’s surface cling,

Are steadfast, and as heavy seem,

As stones beneath them in the stream;