Romance loves to sing
Drowsy head, folded wing
Among green leaves they shake
Within shadowy lake
To me
Hath been most familiar
Taught me
My very earliest word
In wildwood did I lie
A child-
A most knowing eye
Eternal years,
So shake the very Heaven on high
As they thunder by
No time for idle cares
Gazing on the unquiet sky
An hour with calmer wings
My spirit flings
Forbidden things!
My heart would feel
A crime
Unless it trembled
With the strings