ǑD TU A NÎTNGEL
Mî sns, az ɖo v hemlóc I hd drunc,
Or emtid sm dul opịt t ɖ drenz
Wn minit past, n Līʈiẉdz hd sunc:
’tiz nt ʈru envi v ɖî hapi lot,
Bt biyñ tù hapi in ɖîn hapinis,—
Ɖt ɖǎ, lît-wñid Drîad v ɖ triz
In sm mlodịs plot
V bīćn grīn, n śadoz numbrlis,
Sñist v sumr in fl-ʈrotd īz.
O, fr a dráft v vintij! ɖt hʈ bn
Cūld a loñ ej in ɖ dīp-delvd rʈ,
Testñ v Flora n ɖ cuntri grīn,
Dans, n Provõsal soñ, n súnbrnt mrʈ!
O fr a bīcr fl v ɖ worm Sǎʈ,
Fl v ɖ tru, ɖ bluśfl Hiṗcrīn,
Wɖ bīdd bublz wncñ at ɖ brim,
N prpl-stenid mǎʈ;
Ɖt I mt drinc, n līv ɖ wrld unsìn,
N wɖ ɖi fed awe intu ɖ forist dim:
Fed far awe, dzolv, n qt fget
Ẃt ɖǎ amñ ɖ līvz hst nvr noun,
Ɖ wirinis, ɖ fīvr, n ɖ fret
Hir, ẃr men sit n hír ć uɖr gron;
Ẃr pōlzi śecs a fy, sad, last gre herz,
Ẃr yʈ groz pel, n spectr-ʈin, n dîz;
Ẃr bt t ʈnc z t b fl v soro
N ledn-aid dsperz,
Ẃr Byti canot cīp hr lustṛs îz,
Or ny Luv pîn at ɖm bynd tmoro.
Awe! awe! fr I wl flî t ɖi,
Nt ćarịtd bî Bac̣s n hiz pardz,
Bt on ɖ vylis wñz v Powzi,
Ɖo ɖ dul bren pplexz n rtardz:
Olrdi wɖ ɖi! tndr z ɖ nît,
N hapli ɖ Qīn Mūn z on hr ʈron,
Clustrd arnd bî ol hr stari Feiz;
Bt hir ɖr z no lît,
Sev ẃt fṛm hevn z wɖ ɖ brizz bloun
Ʈru vrdyṛs glūmz n wîndñ mosi wez.
I canot si ẃt flǎrz r at mî fīt,
Nr ẃt soft insens hañz upn ɖ bauz,
Bt, in imbāmid darcnis, ges ć swīt
Ẃr-wɖ ɖ sīzṇbl munʈ indǎz
Ɖ gras, ɖ ʈicit, n ɖ frūțrī wîld;
Ẃît hwʈorn, n ɖ pastṛl egḷntîn;
Fast-fedñ vaylits cuvrd p in līvz;
N mid-Me’z eldist ćîld,
Ɖ cmñ muscrôz, fl v dȳi wîn,
Ɖ mrmṛs hōnt v flîz on sumr-īvz.
Darclñ I lisn; n, fr mni a tîm
I hv bn haf in luv wɖ īzfl Deʈ,
Cōld him soft nemz in mni a ḿzid rîm,
T tec intu ɖ er mî qayt breʈ;
Nǎ mor ɖn evr sīmz it rić t dî,
T sīs upn ɖ midnît wɖ no pen,
Ẃl ɖǎ art porñ fʈ ɖî soul abrōd
In sć an xṭsi!
Stl wdst ɖǎ sñ, n I hv irz in ven—
T ɖî hî reqịm bcm a sod.
Ɖǎ wst nt born fr deʈ, imortl Brd!
No hungri jeṇreśnz tréd ɖi dǎn;
Ɖ vôs I hír ɖs pasñ nît wz hŕd
In enćnt dez bî emprr n clǎn:
Phps ɖ slf-sem soñ ɖt faund a paʈ
Ʈru ɖ sad hart v Ruʈ, ẃn, sic fr hom,
Ś std in tirz amd ɖ ełn corn;
Ɖ sem ɖt ofțîmz hʈ
Ćarmd majic cesmnts, oṗnñ on ɖ fom
V periḷs sìz, in feyri landz f’lorn.
F’lorn! ɖ vri wrd z lîc a bel
T tol m bac fṛm ɖi t mî sol slf!
Ady! ɖ fansi canot ćīt so wel
Az ś z femd t d, dsivñ elf.
Ady! ady! ɖî plentiv anʈm fedz
Past ɖ nir medoz, ovr ɖ stil strīm,
P ɖ hilsîd; n nǎ ’tiz berid dīp
In ɖ nxt valigledz:
Wz it a viźn, or a wecñ drīm?
Fled z ɖt ḿzic:—D I wec or slīp?