To use an illustration of my thought,

Drawn from the very spot on which we stand.

—In changeful April, when, as he is wont,

Winter has reassumed a short lived sway

And whitened all the surface of the fields,

If—from the sullen region of the North

Towards the circuit of this holy ground

Your walk conducts you, ere the vigorous sun,

High climbing, hath attained his noon-tide height—

These Mounds, ...