Along a green luxuriant shore

Where hoary Hudson winds his way.

There high upon a slender stem

A Larkspur bloom’d in scarlet pride,

And glittering with an evening gem,

She view’d her beauties in the tide.

Hard by, beneath a cedar’s shade,

An Eglantine of softest hues,

Her blushing buds and flowers display’d,

And shed her odours with the dews.