Rejoiced to see the torrents fall.

Their bright wings heavy from the shower,

The birds, new-bathed, had scarce the power

To reach the branches of the trees

Whose high tops swayed beneath the breeze.

The fallen rain, and falling still,

Hung like a sheet on every hill,

Till, with glad deer, each flooded steep

Showed glorious as the mighty deep.

The torrents down its wooded side