Now Morning from her orient chamber came,
\nAnd her first footsteps touch\u2019d a verdant hill;
\nCrowning its lawny crest with amber flame,
\nSilv\u2019ring the untainted gushes of its rill;
\nWhich, pure from mossy beds, did down distill,
\nAnd after parting beds of simple flowers,
\nBy many streams a little lake did fill,
\nWhich round its marge reflected woven bowers,
\nAnd, in its middle space, a sky that never lowers.
\nThere the king-fisher saw his plumage bright
\nVieing with fish of brilliant dye below;
\nWhose silken fins, and golden scales\u2019 light
\nCast upward, through the waves, a ruby glow:
\nThere saw the swan his neck of arched snow,
\nAnd oar\u2019d himself along with majesty;
\nSparkled his jetty eyes; his feet did show
\nBeneath the waves like Africa\u2019s ebony,
\nAnd on his back a fay reclined voluptuously.<\/p>\n
Ah! could I tell the wonders of an isle
\nThat in that fairest lake had placed been,
\nI could e\u2019en Dido of her grief beguile;
\nOr rob from aged Lear his bitter teen:
\nFor sure so fair a place was never seen,
\nOf all that ever charm\u2019d romantic eye:
\nIt seem\u2019d an emerald in the silver sheen
\nOf the bright waters; or as when on high,
\nThrough clouds of fleecy white, laughs the coerulean sky.<\/p>\n
And all around it dipp\u2019d luxuriously
\nSlopings of verdure through the glossy tide,
\nWhich, as it were in gentle amity,
\nRippled delighted up the flowery side;
\nAs if to glean the ruddy tears, it tried,
\nWhich fell profusely from the rose-tree stem!
\nHaply it was the workings of its pride,
\nIn strife to throw upon the shore a gem
\nOutvieing all the buds in Flora\u2019s diadem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now Morning from her orient chamber came, And her first footsteps touch\u2019d a verdant hill; Crowning its lawny crest with amber flame, Silv\u2019ring the untainted gushes of its rill; Which, pure from mossy beds, did down distill, And after parting beds of simple flowers, By many streams a little lake did fill, Which round its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}