The distant plow slow-moving, and beside

His laboring team, that swerved not from the track,

The sturdy swain diminished to a boy!

Here Ouse, slow-winding through a level plain

Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o’er,

Conducts the eye along his sinuous course

Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank,

Stand, never overlooked, our favorite elms,

That screen the herdsman’s solitary hut;

While far beyond, and overthwart the stream,