Here the gay warbler’s sweetly carolled song

Resounds reverberating rocks among,

Whilst o’er mossed stones Wye’s new-born waters wail

Spreading their murmurs through this lonely dale.

Rydal Water.

Addressed to Wordsworth.

How fair beneath the noontide light,

In splendour rests this silver lake,

Engirt by many a mountain height,