The grass was deepest browsed—gave to the young,

Reposing there, an Eden-hour, and brightly hung,

Round age’s mem’ries, as at eventide,

By lighted lamps, glow carved transparencies.

I felt the perfume-freighted zephyrs glide

On tiptoe by me from the midst of these:

And as they whispered lowly, by degrees

My brain grew dizzy with felicity;

And fancy, with the warm realities,

Mingled such floating, fairy imagery,