The slender fir that taper grows,

The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs,

And beyond the purple grove,

Haunt of Phyllis, queen of love!

Gaudy as the opening dawn

Lies a long and level lawn,

On which a dark hill, steep and high,

Holds and charms the wandering eye!

Deep are his feet in Towy’s flood,

His sides are cloth’d with waving wood,