Which skimm’d their tops, and shook the wavy trees.

III.

The sun descending, shot his golden beams

Askance, with many a cloud his ev’ning throne

Adorn’d; while mountains, woods, and lucent streams,

With the last blushes of his radiance shone.

IV.

Far stretching hence, Cambria’s rough heights I view,

Where Liberty long since forlorn retir’d,

Left fairer climes, and skies of brighter hue,