‘Alexis, here she stay’d, among these pines,

Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair:

Here did she spread the treasure of her hair,

More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines;

Here sat she by these musked eglantines;

The happy flowers seem yet the print to bear:

Her voice did sweeten here thy sugar’d lines,

To which winds, trees, beasts, birds, did lend an ear.

She here me first perceiv’d, and here a morn

Of bright carnations did o’erspread her face: