On a neat harbor and a lively town.

Apart, ’mid screen of trees, it stands, just where

We see the popular bustle, but not share.

Full in our front is spread a varied scene—

A royal ruin, gray, or clothed with green,

Church spires, tower, docks, streets, terraces, and trees,

Back’d by green fields, which mount by due degrees

Into brown uplands, stretching high away

To where, by silent tarns, the wild deer stray.

Below, with gentle tide, the Atlantic Sea