And it hid the talk of the prattling weir.

And now was the horn on the pathway wide

That we had shorn to the river-side.

So up we stood, and wide around

We sheared a space by the Elders' Mound;

And at the feet thereof it was

That highest grew the June-tide grass;

And over all the mound it grew

With clover blent, and dark of hue.

But never aught of the Elders' Hay