To spicy groves where he had won

His plumage of resplendent hue—

His native fruits, and skies, and sun—

He bade adieu.

For these he changed the smoke of turf,

A heathery land and misty sky;

And turn’d on rocks and raging surf

His golden eye.

But, petted, in our climate cold,

He lived and chatter’d many a day;