“Through the light green hollows where the lambs

Go for the tender grass;”

or that the scene of Christ’s baptism

“Was a green spot in the wilderness

Touched by the river Jordan. The dark pine

Never had dropped its tassels on the moss

Tufting the leaning bank, nor on the grass

Of the broad circle stretching evenly

To the straight larches had a heavier foot

Than the wild heron’s trodden. Softly in