And where the Cynorrhodon[2] with the rose

For fragrance vies; for in the thirsty soil

Most fragrant breathe the aromatic tribes. 280

There bid thy roofs high on the basking steep

Ascend, there light thy hospitable fires.

And let them see the winter morn arise,

The summer evening blushing in the west;

While with umbrageous oaks the ridge behind 285

O’erhung, defends you from the blust’ring north,

And bleak affliction of the peevish east.