•   LITTLE Ellie sits alone
    Mid the beeches of a meadow,
      By a stream-side on the grass,
      And the trees are showering down
    Doubles of their leaves in shadow,
      On her shining hair and face.

      She has thrown her bonnet by,
    And her feet she has been dipping
      In the shallow water’s flow.
      Now she holds them nakedly...