The woods are green, the meadows fair.

And woods, I know, have always been

The haunt of fairies, good or grim;

There the knight-errant hasted him;

There Bottom found King Oberon's Queen;

The Enchanted Castle always stood

Deep in the shadow of a wood.

But I know upland spirits too

Who love the shadeless downs to climb;

There, in the far-off fabled time,