And up between the mossy rails

It lightly climbs, and clambers through

The growing corn, and barley, too,

And winds the fallow weeds and trails

Along the creek where cowslips grew.

O lavish stems, that fondly fling

Close clasp about the earth, and cling

In wreaths of fragrant flowering,

Ev’n as ye do

To that dear soil wherefrom ye spring,