What?

Strengthening as secret manna,
Fostering as clouds above,
Kind as a hovering dove,

Full as a plenteous river,
Our glory and our banner
For ever and for ever.

Dear as a dying cadence
Of music in the drowsy night:

Fair as the flowers which maidens
Pluck for an hour's delight,
And then forget them quite.

Gay as a cowslip-meadow
Fresh opening to the sun
When new day is begun:

Soft as a sunny shadow-
When day is almost done.
Glorious as purple twilight,

Pleasant as budding tree.
Untouched as any islet

Shrined in an unknown sea:
Sweet as a fragrant rose amid the dew: --
As sweet, as fruitless too.

Sleep, Sweet, devoid of fear
Where nothing need alarm thee.