With linkèd branches, golden shadows spread;

Where sweet wind-flowers bend before the breeze,

And many an arum lifts her hooded head;

Where the early primrose blows,

Long we lingered, loth to part:

Have you forgotten, Lady Rose,

Our earnest converse, heart to heart?

III.

The mossy stonework of the ancient span

That bridged the clear brown waters of the stream,