Meadow or hedgerow, turnip-field, or moor?

Snowy perspective, long suburban winding

Of bowery road-way, villa-edged and trim.

Iron-railed city street, where gas-lamps blinding

Glare through the foggy distance dense and dim?

All with that broad free force, whose fascination

All felt, and artists most, that dexterous sleight

Which gave our land the unchallenged consummation

Of graphic mastery in Black-and-White.

Pleasant to dwell on, and a proud possession,