POEMS. THE LOST BOWER. I. In the pleasant orchard-closes, 'God bless all our gains,' say we; But May God bless all our losses,' Better suits with our degree. Listen, gentle-ay, and simple! listen, children on the knee! II. Green the land is where my daily Summer-snow of apple-blossoms running up from glade VOL. III. to glade. B III. There is one hill I see nearer And a little wood seems clearer As it climbeth from the west, Sideway from the tree-locked valley, to the airy upland crest. IV. Small the wood is, green with hazels, And, completing the ascent, Where the wind blows and sun dazzles Thrills in leafy tremblement, Like a heart that after climbing beateth quickly through content. V. Not a step the wood advances O'er the open hill-top's bound; There, in green arrest, the branches See their image on the ground: You may walk beneath them smiling, glad with sight and glad with sound. VI. For you harken on your right hand, In the greenwood, out of sight and Out of reach and fear of all; And the squirrels crack the filberts through their cheerful madrigal. |