Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite

Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.

News from the humming city comes to it

In sound of funeral or of marriage bells;

And sitting muffled in dark leaves you hear

The windy clanging of the winter clock;

Although between it and the garden lies

A league of grass, washed by a slow broad stream,

That, stirred with languid pulses of the oar,

Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on,