O'er faded heath-flowers spun, or thorny furze, The filmy Gossamer is lightly spread;
Waving in every sighing air that stirs, As Fairy fingers had entwined the thread:
A thousand trembling orbs of lucid dew Spangle the texture of the fairy loom,
As if soft Sylphs, lamenting as they flew, Had wept departed Summer's transient bloom:
But the wind rises, and the turf receives The glittering web: — So, evanescent,
Bright views that Youth with sanguine heart believes: So vanish schemes of bliss, by Fancy made;
Which, fragile as the fleeting dews of morn,
Leave but the wither'd heath, and barren thorn!
