Wedding their notes to the enamor’d air!
There Nature, in her unaffected dress,
Plaited with valleys, and emboss’d with hills,
Enlaced with silver streams, and fring’d with woods,
Sits lovely in her native russet.
William Chamberlayne, 1619–1689.
HYMN.
BEFORE SUNRISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI.
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause