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Rude rocks with Filices and Bryums smile, And wastes are gay with Thyme and Chamomile.

Ah! yet prolong the dear delicious dream, And trace her power along the mountain stream. See! from its rude and rocky source, o'erhung With female fern, and glossy adder's-tongue Slowly it wells, in pure and chrystal drops, And steals soft-gliding, thro' the upland copse; Then murmuring on, along the willowy sides, The reed-bird whispers, and the Halcyon hides; While among sallows pale, and birchen bowers, Embarks in Fancy's eye the queen of flowers.

O'er her light skiff, of woven bull-rush made, The Water lily lends a polish'd shade;