As if the seasons had roll’d back, and life

Enjoy’d a second spring.

Through fertile fields

He went, by cots with pear-trees overbower’d,

Or spreading to the sun their trelliced vines;

Through orchards now, and now by thymy banks,

Where wooden hives in some warm nook were hid

From wind and shower; and now thro’ shadowy paths,

Where hazels fringed Pionia’s vocal stream;

Till where the loftier hills to narrower bound