The moon rushed up above the plain:

The crags were white like frosty rime;

Her beams upon me fell like rain.

It was her harvest month of might:

The vales and villages were glad;

I cried—my palms against the light—

Like one with sudden pinions clad,

“Whom seek'st thou, O thou rising moon

That broad'nest like a warrior's shield?

Whom seest thou? Thou shalt see him soon,