Blushing their last to the last sunny hours,

When the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest,

Like tearful Proserpine, snatch’d from her flow’rs,

To a most gloomy breast.

Where is the pride of Summer—the green prime—

The merry, merry leaves all twinkling?—there

On the moss’d elm; there on the naked lime

Trembling—and one upon the old oak-tree!

Where is the Dryad’s immortality?

Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew,