• Sweet, sweet, sweet,
      Is the wind’s song,
    Astir in the rippled wheat
      All day long.
    It hath the brook’s wild gayety,
    The sorrowful cry of the sea.
      Oh hush and hear!
      Sweet, sweet and clear,
      Above the locust’s whirr
      And hum of bee
    Rises that soft, pathetic harmony.

    In the meadow-grass
      ...