Soon, in this leafy ambush set,

Love bade my soul look forth and let

Sight wonder at its might or will.

Then saw I those that wandered still

Lost in the green and covert ways,

And all the secret of the maze.

How there, as folks distraught, misled,

Sought lovers for their lover, who fled

Far from them, or, unwitting, past

The prisoning hedge that shut them fast: