Again, there was delightful outlook for
“——a bank whereon the wild thyme blows
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;”
or, perhaps it was the
“Summer’s green, all girded up in sheaves”
that caught the eye; or, yet again, the picturesque hedge-rows, which,
Like prisoners overgrown with hair
Put forth disordered twigs;
and these flanked by some
“——even mead, which erst brought sweetly forth