The water in the sheenèn pool,

Thy beds o' snow-white buds do gleam

So feäir upon the sky-blue stream,

As whitest clouds, a-hangèn high

Avore the blueness o' the sky;

An' there, at hand, the thin-heäir'd cows,

In aïry sheädes o' withy boughs,

Or up bezide the mossy raïls,

Do stan' an' zwing their heavy taïls,

The while the ripplèn stream do flow