He rose, find homeward by the slumbering stream

Walked with the morn-dew glistening on his shoon.

The sun was up, and his outbursting beam

Touched tower and tree and pasture hills aboon;

The stars were quenched, and vanished was the moon;

Loud lowed the herds and the glad partridge' cry

Made corn-fields musical as groves at noon;

Birds left the perch, bee following bee hummed by,

And gladness reigned on earth and brightness claimed the sky.

MINSTRELSY.