To the wild flocks that wander around,
And the oxen that reek from the harrow.
“I will give thee high rank and renown among fountains,
When I sing of the ilex o’erspreading the hollows,
Of rocks whence in musical fall
Leap thy garrulous silvery waters.”
This is better because more literal than Joseph Warton’s unrhymed version in the Miltonian stanza, with which it may be compared:
“Ye waves that gushing fall with purest streams,
Blandusian fount! to whom the products sweet
Of richest wines belong,