That grouped in rounded clusters the grassy and quiet glades.

Then the log hut was swept away

With its chimney of sticks,

And its little window, like the eye of the deer

Peering out from its leafy ambush.

The village spread out with its roofs

And its delicate finger-like steeple

That pointed forever toward heaven,

Like the prayer of the pastor ascending.

On an emerald knoll, with the shape