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He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.

Thomas Kibble Hervey
Summer, Gone, Cottages
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1830). “The Devil's progress, a poem, by the editor of the 'Court journal'.”, p.50
He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.