Oh! pleasant breast of waters, quiet bay,

Like to a quiet mind in the loud world,

Where the chafed breakers of the outer sea

Sunk powerless, even as anger falls aside,

And withers on the breast of peaceful love,

Thou didst receive that belt of pines, that fledged

The hills that watch'd thee, as Love watcheth Love,—

In thine own essence, and delight thyself

To make it wholly thine on sunny days.

Keep thou thy name of 'Lover's bay': See, Sirs,