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