On the windings of the flood,

Shadowed by the summer wood,

Dusk with dreams yon leaves that play

With the falling blooms of May.

Like the web the Fates do spin

Helpless man to cradle in—

Hung, with life, upon a thread,

Here I swing, and, o’er my head,

Maze of apples, boughs and leaves,

Meshed wherein, my thought enweaves