Wild nature’s sweetest notes they hear:

On green untrodden banks they view

The hyacinth’s neglected hue;

In their lone haunts, and woodland rounds,

They spy the squirrel’s airy bounds;

And startle from her ashen spray,

Across the glen, the screaming jay:

Each native charm their steps explore

Of Solitude’s sequester’d store.

For them the moon with cloudless ray