Born of Water + 

Methought I stood among the stars alone, + 

Watching a grey parched orb which onward flew + 

Half blinded by the dusty winds that blew, + 

Empty as Death and barren as a stone, + 

The pleasant sound of water all unknown! + 

When, as I looked in wonderment, there grew, + 

High in the air above, a drop of dew, + 

Which, gathering slowly through long cycles, shone + 

Like a great tear; and then at last it fell + 

Clasping the orb, which drank it greedily, + 

With a delicious noise and upward swell + 

Of sweet cool joy that tossed me like a sea; + 

And then the thick life sprang as from a grave, + 

With trees, flowers, boats upon the bounding wave! + 