Closer drawn by brier and burr,

There on lonely Devil's Den.

We were pupils of her moods:

Taught the beauties of her loins

In those bloom-anointed coignes,—

Love in her eternal woods:

How she bore or flower or bud;

Pithed the wiry sapling-oak;

In the long vine zeal awoke

Aye to climb a leafy flood.