Shallow brooks, and rivers wide:

Towers and battlements it sees

Bosomed high in tufted trees,

Where perhaps some Beauty lies,

The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. 80

Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes,

From betwixt two agèd oaks,

Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met,

Are at their savoury dinner set

Of herbs, and other country messes, 85