The lush rose lingers late.

With unpretending myrtle twine,

Naught else! It fits your brows

Attending me; it graces mine

As I in happy ease carouse

Beneath the thick-leaved vine.[71]

The following ode offers more variety, and is perhaps more representative:

One dazzling mass of solid snow,

Soracte stands; the bent woods fret

Beneath their load, and, sharpest set