“To Heav’n remov’d, where first it grew, there grows,

“And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life;

“And where the river of bliss, thro’ midst of Heav’n,

“Rolls o’er Elysian flow’rs her amber stream:

“With these, that never fade, the spirits elect

“Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath’d with beams.”

Milton’s Paradise Lost.


Say, lovely fair! whene’er you rove,

Along the flow’r-enamell’d vale,