Falls on the ear; and all around, the eye

Meets nought but hath a moral. These deep shades—

With here and there an upright trunk of ash

Or beech or nut, whose branches interlaced

O’ercanopy us, and, shutting out the day,

A twilight make—they press upon the heart

With force amazing and unutterable.

These trunks enormous, from the mountain side

Ripp’d roots and all by whirlwinds—those vast pines

Athwart the ravine’s melancholy gloom