ELEGY.

O thou field! thou clean and level field!

O thou plain, so far and wide around!

Level field, dressed up with every thing,

Every thing; with sky-blue flowerets small,

Fresh green grass, and bushes thick with leaves;

But defaced by one thing, but by one!

For in thy very middle stands a broom,

On the broom a young gray eagle sits,

And he butchers wild a raven black,