Where essential silence cheers and blesses,

And for ever in the hill-recesses

Her more lovely music broods and dies.

O to mount again where erst I haunted;

Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted,

And the low green meadows bright with sward;

And when even dies, the million-tinted,

And the night has come, and planets glinted,

Lo! the valley hollow, lamp-bestarred.

O to dream, O to awake and wander