Their drooping eyes in quick repose.

Their little sons, who spread the bloom

Of health around the clay-built room,

Or through the primrosed coppice stray,

Or gambol in the new-mown hay;

Or quaintly braid the cowslip-twine,

Or drive afield the tardy kine;

Or hasten from the sultry hill,

To loiter at the shady rill;

Or climb the tall pine’s gloomy crest,