With eager thought warbling his [Doric] lay:

And now the sun [had stretched out all the hills], 190

And now was dropt into the western bay.

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue;

To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

SONNETS.

I.

TO THE NIGHTINGALE.

O Nightingale that on yon bloomy spray

Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,