Gravely the farmer smiled, by turns approving all.

The ripe corn waved in lone Dalgonar glen,

That, with its bosom basking in the sun,

Lies like a bird; the hum of working men

Joins with the sound of streams that southward run,

With fragrant holms atween: then mix in one

Beside a church, and round two ancient towers

Form a deep fosse. Here sire is heired by son,

And war comes never; ancle deep in flowers

In summer walk its dames among the sunny bowers.