For such an hour of soothing silence.

Kind Nature, shuffling in her loose undress,

Lays bare her shady bosom; I can feel

With all around me; I can hail the flowers

That sprig earth’s mantle; and yon quiet bird,

That rides the stream, is to me as a brother.

The vulgar know not all the hidden pockets,

Where Nature stows away her loveliness.—

But this unnatural posture of the legs

Cramps my extended calves, and I must go