Of flowery upland, and of orchard-lawn,

Lit by the lingering evening's softened gold,

Or flushed with rose-hued radiance of the dawn;

Bird-music beautiful; the robin's trill,

Or the rook's drowsy clangour; flats that run

From sky to sky, dusk woods that drape the hill,

Still lakes that draw the sun;

All, all are mirror'd in his verse, and there

Familiar beauties shine most strangely fair.

Poet, the pass-key magical was thine,