The rural palace of some village scant,

Shelter’d by vineyards, skirted by fair meads,

And by the music of a shallow rill

Made ever chearful, now thou hast exchang’d

For stranger woods and vallies.

What of that!

Here, or on torrid desarts; o’er the world

Of trackless waves, or on the frozen cliffs

Of black Siberia, thou art not alone!

For there, on each, on all, The Deity