Angel-songs at eve I heard

Rise from many a circling hill,

And my harp whene’er ’t is stirr’d

Trembles to their cadence still!

“I am the spirit of joy and of mirth,

And I gladden the hearts of the sons of earth,

I twine a chaplet of deathless flowers

For the fair young brows of the laughing Hours,

I show to the Poet’s dreaming eye,

The shadowy realms of Phantasy,