[Along the crisped shades and bowers]

Revels the [spruce] and jocund Spring; 985

[The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours]

Thither all their bounties bring.

There eternal Summer dwells,

And west winds with musky wing

[About the cedarn alleys] fling 990

Nard and cassia’s balmy smells.

[Iris] there with humid bow

Waters the odorous banks, that [blow]