• Hail, happy shades! tho' clad with heavy snows,

    At sight of you with joy my bosom glows;

    Ye arching pines, that bow with every breeze,

    Ye poplars, elms, all hail my well-known trees!

    And now my peaceful mansion strikes my eye,

    And now the tinkling rivulet I spy;

    My little garden Flora hast...