Sulphur parrots, and parrots red,
Scarlet, and flame, and green;
And five-foot apes that jargonèd
In feathery-tufted treen.
And oh, or ever the dawning shed
On dreams a narrow flame,
Three gaping dwarfs gat out of bed
And gazed upon the same.
At dawn they fished, at noon they snared
Young foxes in the dells,