First by that spring to stand?

A thousand streams of lovelier flow

Bathed his own mountain-land!

Whence, far o’er waste and ocean track,

Their wild, sweet voices, call’d him back.

They call’d him back to many a glade,

His childhood’s haunt of play,

Where brightly through the beechen shade

Their waters glanced away;

They call’d him, with their sounding waves,