Under your fig-tree, bowed with fruit

And warranting repose,

Under your pine, inviting shady joy,

Unchanging blooms

Eternal Spring!

Friedrich Stolberg was a very prophet of Nature; in his ode Nature he says:

He who does not love Nature cannot be my friend.

His prayer may serve as the motto of his day:

Holy Nature, heavenly fair,

Lead me with thy parent care;