Sweet hills and dales, all robed in green,

With here and there a pleasant grove

Where every class delights to rove;

There, age sits down beneath the shade,

Where he has oft in childhood strayed;

There, youths and maidens often walk,

To spend an hour in friendly talk;

There, little children, too, are seen,

Like lambs they gambol o'er the green;

They wander there in summer hours