The boughs soon tempt the gatherer as before.

There too, well-rooted, and of fruit profuse,

His vineyard grows; part, wide-extended, basks

In the sun’s beams; the arid level glows;

In part they gather, and in part they tread

The wine-press, while, before the eye, the grapes

Here put their blossom forth, there gather fast

Their blackness. On the garden’s verge extreme

Flowers of all hues smile all the year, arranged

With neatest art judicious, and amid