Faerie.

From the oped lattice glance once more abroad     While the ethereal moontide bathes with light     Hill, stream, and garden, and white-winding road.     All gracious myths born of the shadowy night     Recur, and hover in fantastic guise,     Airy and vague, before the drowsy sight.     On yonder soft gray hill Endymion lies     In rosy slumber, and the moonlit air     Breathes kisses on his cheeks and lips and eyes.     'Twixt bush and bush gleam flower-white limbs, left bare,     Of huntress-nymphs, and flying raiment thin,     Vanishing faces, and bright floating hair.     The quaint midsummer fairies and their kin,     Gnomes, elves, and trolls, on blossom, branch, and grass     Gambol and dance, and winding out and in     Leave circles of spun dew where'er they pass.     Through the blue ether the freed Ariel flies;     Enchantment holds the air; a swarming mass     Of myriad dusky, gold-winged dreams arise,     Throng toward the gates of sense, and so possess     The soul, and lull it to forgetfulness.