Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke

Sent up, in silence, from among the trees

With some uncertain notice, as might seem,

Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, 20

Or of some hermit’s cave, where by his fire

The hermit sits alone.

These beauteous forms

Through a long absence have not been to me

As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: 25

But oft, in lonely rooms, and ’mid the din