The glade to gladden with a garden’s smiles.

XIV.

Then in the woods he carved the deep alcove,

And led the climbing vines from tree to tree;

But near the cottage left the birchen grove,

Its tassels waving in the breezes free;

While o’er the stream their boughs the cedars wove,

Where wound a walk adown the murmuring lea;

And gadding vines embowered the fount’s bright flow

’Twixt banks of vernal flowers in bloom below.