Free as the sun, and lonely as the sun,
Pouring above his head its radiance down
Upon a living and rejoicing world!
"So, westward, tow'rd the unviolated woods
I bent my way; and, roaming far and wide,
Failed not to greet the merry Mocking-bird;[DU]
And, while the melancholy Muccawiss
(The sportive bird's companion in the grove)
Repeated, o'er and o'er, his plaintive cry,[DV]
I sympathised at leisure with the sound;