Of Flora’s brightest 'broidery shone,

Every checker’d charm is flown;

Save that the lilac hangs to view

Its bursting gems in clusters blue.

Scant along the ridgy land

The beans their new-born ranks expand;

The fresh-turn’d soil, with tender blades,

Thinly the sprouting barley shades:

Fringing the forest’s devious edge,

Half-rob’d appears the hawthorn hedge;