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mane of green-barked yew Supports the sky: Beautiful spot! the large green of an oak Fronting the storm. A tree of apples--great its bounty! Like a hostel, vast! A pretty bush, thick as a fist, of tiny hazel-nuts, A green mass of branches. A choice pure spring and princely water To drink: There spring watercresses, yew-berries, Ivy-bushes thick as a man. Around it tame swine lie down. Goats, pigs, Wild swine, grazing deer, A badger's brood. A peaceful troop, a heavy host of denizens of the soil, A-trysting at my house: To meet them foxes come, How delightful! Fairest princes come to my house, A ready gathering: Pure water, perennial bushes, Salmon, trout. A bush of rowan, black sloes, Dusky blackthorns, Plenty of food, acorns, pure berries, Bare flags. A clutch of eggs, honey, delicious mast, God has sent it: Sweet apples, red whortleberries, And blaeberries. Ale with herbs, a dish of strawberries Of good taste and colour, Haws, berries of the juniper, Sloes, nuts. A cup with mead of hazel-nut, blue-bells, Quick-growing rushes, Dun oaklets, manes of briar, Goodly sweet tangle. When brilliant summer-time spreads its coloured mantle, Sweet-tasting fragrance! Pignuts, wild marjoram, green leeks, Verdant pureness! The music of the bright red-breasted men, A lovely movement! The strain of the thrush, familiar cuckoos Above my house. Swarms of bees and chafers, the little musicians of the world, A gentle chorus: Wild geese and ducks, shortly before summer's end, The music of the dark torrent. An active songster, a lively wren From the hazel-bough, Beautiful hooded birds, woodpeckers, A vast multitude! Fair white birds come, herons, seagulls, The cuckoo sings between-- No mournful music! dun heathpoults Out of the russet heather. The lowing of heifers in summer, Brightest of seasons! Not bitter, toilsome over the fertile plain, Delightful, smooth! The voice of the wind against the branchy wood Upon the deep-blue sky:
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