Amid this fresh and virgin solitude

The faded fancies of an elder world;

But leave these scarlet cups to spotted moths

Of June, and glistening flies, and humming-birds,

To drink from, when on all these boundless lawns

The morning sun looks hot. Or let the wind

O’erturn in sport their ruddy brims, and pour

A sudden shower upon the strawberry plant,

To swell the reddening fruit that even now

Breathes a slight fragrance from the sunny slope.