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Rh In midst, to cheer the ravish'd gazer's view, A gushing fount its waters upward threw, Thence slowly on with crystal current pass'd, And crept into the distant flood at last: But nigh its source a pine's umbrageous head Stretch'd far and wide in deathless verdure spread, Met with broad shade the summers's sultry gleam, And through the livelong year shut out the beam.
 * "Such was the scene:—yet still the place was bless'd

With one rare pleasure passing all the rest: A wondrous bird of energies divine Had fix'd his dwelling in the tufted pine; There still he sat, and there with amorous lay, Wak'd the dim morn, and clos'd the parting day: Match'd with the strains of linked sweetness wrought The violin and full-ton'd harp were nought; Of power they were with new-born joy to move The cheerless heart of long-desponding love; Of power so strange, that should they cease to sound, And the blithe songster flee the mystick ground, That goodly orchard's scene, the pine-tree's shade, Trees, flowers, and fount, would all like vapour fade.