The Harvest Moon

I     Globed in Heav'n's tree of azure, golden mellow     As some round apple hung     High in hesperian boughs, thou hangest yellow     The branch-like mists among:     Within thy light a sunburnt youth, named Health,     Rests 'mid the tasseled shocks, the tawny stubble;     And by his side, clad on with rustic wealth     Of field and farm, beneath thy amber bubble,     A nut-brown maid, Content, sits smiling still:     While through the quiet trees,     The mossy rocks, the grassy hill,     Thy silvery spirit glides to yonder mill,     Around whose wheel the breeze     And shimmering ripples of the water play,     As, by their mother, little children may. II     Sweet spirit of the moon, who walkest,--lifting     Exhaustless on thy arm,     A pearly vase of fire,--through the shifting     Cloud-halls of calm and storm,     Pour down thy blossoms! let me hear them come,     Pelting with noiseless light the twinkling thickets,     Making the darkness audible with the hum     Of many insect creatures, grigs and crickets:     Until it seems the elves hold revelries     By haunted stream and grove;     Or, in the night's deep peace,     The young-old presence of Earth's full increase     Seems telling thee her love,     Ere, lying down, she turns to rest, and smiles,     Hearing thy heart beat through the myriad miles.