Or where’s the music of the humble thrush,

So well depicted by his able brush

Perch’d on yon twig of nut-brown hazel-bush?

Or where the whisperings of the rustling trees,

As through their branches curl the gentle breeze?—

Or, when ’presented in a wintry storm,

We hear no moaning through the leafless form.

And then again—behold his[198] emerald glade

How breezy-bent it greets the crescent blade,

When, as it were, ten mowers (rosy blithe)