“Crowns with her enclosure green,

As with a rural mound, the champion head

Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides,

With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,

Access denied; and overhead up-grew

Insuperable height of loftiest shade,

Cedar and pine and fir, and branching palm,

A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend,

Shade above shade, a woody theatre

Of stateliest view.”