Then down the steep, by paths scored in its side,

Where frequent deer had sought the floods below,

He past, still following his dusky guide

And stooping often under drooping bough,

To a broad cultured field, expanding wide

Betwixt dense thickets and Mooshausick’s flow.

Its deep green rows of waving maize foretold

Abundant harvest from a fertile mould.

XXXIX.