And, [when the sun begins] to fling

His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring

To arched walks of twilight groves,

And shadows brown, that [Sylvan] loves,

Of pine, or [monumental oak], 135

Where the rude axe with heaved stroke

Was never heard the nymphs to daunt,

Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.

There, in close covert, by some brook,

[Where no profaner eye may look], 140