Green spot of holy ground!

If thou couldst yet be found,

Far in deep woods, with all thy starry flowers;

If not one sullying breath

Of time, or change, or death,

Had touch’d the vernal glory of thy bowers;

Might our tired pilgrim-feet,

Worn by the desert’s heat,

On the bright freshness of thy turf repose?

Might our eyes wander there