Where’er the tyrant man has been,

There Peace, the cherub, cannot stay;

In wilds and woodlands far away

She builds her solitary bower,

Where only anchorites have trod,

Or friendless men, to worship God,

Have wandered for an hour.

In such a far forsaken vale,—

And such, sweet Eldurn vale, is thine,—

Afflicted nature shall inhale