Remembered half, and half forgot,

Of sight, or sound, or sense begot,

Confused in love’s ambrosial streams,

And hidden in the house of dreams;

As frail sweet scent of flowers that hold

Past time and days in some book’s fold,

Which, when the leaves are turned again,

Doth warm, like wine, the wintry brain.

O bird, thy heart doth sing in me,

I hear what thou dost hear—I see