Mute nature mourns her worshipper,

And celebrates his obsequies;

Who say, tall cliff and cavern lone

For the departed bard make moan;

That mountains weep in crystal rill;

That flowers in tears of balm distil;

Through his loved groves that breezes sigh,

And oaks, in deeper groan, reply;

And rivers teach their rushing wave

To murmur dirges round his grave."