What wizard touch hath, crowning you with gold,

Cast Tyrian purple o'er broad-shouldered woods,

And to your pride anointed empire sold

For wan traditioned death, whose misty moods

Shake each huge throne of quarried shadows cold?

Now where the agate-foliaged forests sleep,

Bleak briars are ruby-berried, and the brush

Flames—when the winds armsful of motion heap

In wincing gusts upon it—amber blush;

The beech an inner beryle breaks from deep