Fresh green, and pleasant yellow, red most brave,

And constant blue, rich purple, guiltless white,

The lowly russet, and the scarlet bright;

Branch’d and embroider’d like the painted Spring,

Each leaf match’d with a flower, and each string

Of golden wire, each line of silk; there run

Italian works whose thread the Sisters spun;

And there did sing, or seem to sing, the choice

Birds of a foreign note and various voice.

Here hangs a mossy rock; there plays a fair