Like that same hermit’s, thin and spare,

The copse must give my evening fare;

Some mossy bank my couch must be,

Some rustling oak my canopy.

Yet pass we that; the war and chase

Give little choice of resting place;—

A summer night, in greenwood spent,

Were but to-morrow’s merriment:

But hosts may in these wilds abound,

Such as are better miss’d than found;