As furious with its breath of ice!

See how the dewy tears they weep

The barley, wheat, and woodland steep,

Where, as the sun goes up the sky,

The curlew and the sáras cry.

See where the rice plants scarce uphold

Their full ears tinged with paly gold,

Bending their ripe heads slowly down

Fair as the date tree's flowery crown.

Though now the sun has mounted high