With lightened heart he smiled serenely gay,

Like young Adonis, or the son of May.

Not Cytherea from a fairer swain

Received her apple on the Trojan plain.

IV. The Sun’s bright orb, declining all serene,

Now glanced obliquely o’er the woodland scene:

Creation smiles around; on every spray

The warbling birds exalt their evening lay:

Blithe skipping o’er yon hill, the fleecy train

Join the deep chorus of the lowing plain;