Is every earthly love;

For joy, to shun my weary way,

Is registered above.

The languid brooklets yield their sighs,

A requiem o'er the tomb [25]

Of sunny days and cloudless skies,

Enhancing autumn's gloom.

The wild winds mutter, howl, and moan, [1]

To scare my woodland walk,

And frightened fancy flees, to roam