By a cliff a golden cloud once lingered;
On his breast it slept… From the swing, from the garden, helter-skelter,
A twig runs up to the glass.
Enormous, close, with a drop of emerald At the tip of the cluster cast.
The garden is clouded, lost in confusion,
In staggering, teeming fuss.
The dear one, as big as the garden, a sister By nature-a second glass!
But then this twig is brought in a tumbler And put by the looking-glass;
Which wonders:-Who is it that blurs my vision,
From the dull, from the prison-class?
