Of Eden, whose delicious Paradise

Now nearer crowns with her enclosure green,

As with a rural mound, the champaign head

Of a steep wilderness, whose hoary sides,

With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,

Access denied: and overhead up-grew

Insuperable height of loftiest shade,

Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm;

A sylvan scene! And as the ranks ascend,

Shade above shade, a woody theatre