The yellow, red, or purple of the trees

That, singly, or in tufts, or forests thick,

Adorn the shores; to see, perhaps, the side

Of some high mount reflected far below,

With its bright colors, intermixed with spots

Of darker green. Yes, it were sweetly sad

To wander in the open fields, and hear,

E’en at this hour, the noonday hardly past,

The lulling insects of the summer’s night;

To hear, where lately buzzing swarms were heard,