Forth flourish'd thick the clustering vine, forth crept

The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed

Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub,

And bush with frizzled hair implicit: last

Rose as in dance the stately trees, and spread

Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed

Their blossoms; with high woods the hills were crowned.

With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side,

With borders, long the rivers: that earth now

Seem'd like to heaven, a seat where gods might dwell