Whiten’d again the wilderness. They left

The dark Sierra’s skirts behind, and cross’d

The wilds where Ana in her native hills

Collects her sister springs, and hurries on

Her course melodious amid loveliest glens,

With forest and with fruitage overbower’d.

These scenes profusely blest by Heaven they left,

Where o’er the hazel and the quince the vine

Wide-mantling spreads; and clinging round the cork

And ilex, hangs amid their dusky leaves