GENIUS LOCI.

I.

WHAT deity for dozing laziness

Devised the lounging coziness of this

Enchanted nook?—and how!—did I distress

His musing ease that fled but now, or his

Laughed frolic with some forest-sister, fair

As those wild hill-carnations are and rare?

Too true, alas!—Feel! the wild moss is warm

And moist with late reclining, as the palm