  When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round; And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay; Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson. |
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