And in deep shade the landscape merge;—

Under the massive cloud’s low border,

Where hill-tops with the sky unite,

Like an old minster’s blazoned warder,

There scintillates an amber light.

Sometimes a humid fleece reposes

Midway upon the swelling ridge,

Like an aerial couch of roses,

Or Dairy’s amethystine bridge:

And pale green inlets lucid shimmer,