Found in each cleft a narrow bower;

Foxglove and nightshade, side by side,

Emblems of punishment and pride,

Group’d their dark hues with every stain

The weather-beaten crags retain.

With boughs that quaked at every breath,

Gray birch and aspen[37] wept beneath;

Aloft, the ash and warrior oak

Cast anchor in the rifted rock;

And, higher yet, the pine tree hung