Here, where the gleamy primrose-tufts have blown,

And where the mountain-heath a couch has spread,

And, settling oft on some gray, letter’d stone,

The redbreast warbles lone;

And the wild-bee’s deep drowsy murmurs pass,

Like a low thrill of harp-strings, through the grass:

Here, midst the chambers of the Christian’s sleep,

We o’er death’s gulf may look with trusting eye;

For Hope sits, dove-like, on the gloomy deep,

And the green hills wherein these valleys lie