Now wild round her arbour distractedly stand.

III.

Her golden-clothed fishes now deaden their hue:

The birds cease to warble—the wood-dove to coo:

The cypress spreads wide, and the willow droops low,

And the noon’s brightest ray can’t enliven Croneroe.

IV.

In the low-winding glen, all embosom’d in green,

Where the thrush courts her muse, and the blackbird is seen,

The rill as it flows, limpid, silent, and slow,