Cometh he to-night?

Insect-mazes, softly droning

O’er the mill-stream’s fitful moaning,

In your wayward flight,

Murmur o’er the bridge’s cope

Lullabies to dreaming Hope—

Cometh he to-night?

Weave your flaming splendours o’er me,

Evening clouds that float before me,

Rosy, gold, and white;