Whose shelving sides are red with naked mould.

Ye rains of April, duly wet this earth!

Spare, burning sun of midsummer, these sods,

That they may knit together, and therewith

Our thoughts unite in kindred quietness!

Nor so the Valley shall forget her loss.

Dear Youth, by young and old alike beloved,[JG]

To me as precious as my own!—Green herbs

May creep (I wish that they would softly creep)

Over thy last abode, and we may pass