With their long fibers swept the ground.

Here, for retreat in dangerous hour,

Some chief had framed a rustic bower.

XXVI.

It was a lodge of ample size,

But strange of structure and device;

Of such materials, as around

The workman’s hand had readiest found;

Lopp’d off their boughs, their hoar trunks bared,

And by the hatchet rudely squared.