When Summer o'er her native hills

            A veil of beauty spread,

        She sat and watched her gentle fold,

            And twined her flaxen thread.

 

        The mountain daisies kissed her feet,...

Poet:

        Why bends she o'er that glittering toy

            With such an earnest gaze,

        As if those flashing jewels cast

            Love glances in their rays?

 

        By that high, thought-enthronéd brow—...

Poet: