• For days the peaks wore hoods of cloud,
      The slopes were veiled in chilly rain;
    We said: It is the Summer’s shroud,
    And with the brooks we moaned aloud,—
      Will sunshine never come again?

    At last the west wind brought us one
      Serene, warm, cloudless, crystal day,
    As though September, having blown
    A blast of tempest, now had...