Could from sad regions send him to a dear

Delightful land of verdure, shower and gleam,

To mock the wandering Voice[257] beside some haunted stream.[258]

O bounty without measure! while the grace

Of Heaven doth in such wise, from humblest springs, 35

Pour pleasure forth, and solaces that trace

A mazy course along familiar things,

Well may our hearts have faith that blessings come,

Streaming from founts above the starry sky,

With angels when their own untroubled home 40