Within a bower of sycamores am laid;

And winds as soft and sweet as ever bore

The fragrance of wild-flowers through sun and shade

Are singing in the trees, whose low boughs press my head.

Nature hath made thee lovelier than the power

Even of Campbell’s pen hath pictured: he

Had woven, had he gazed one sunny hour

Upon thy smiling vale, its scenery

With more of truth, and made each rock and tree

Known like old friends, and greeted from afar: