Here you will find the Poem Song II. The Landscape of poet William Shenstone
How pleased within my native bowers Erewhile I pass'd the day! Was ever scene so deck'd with flowers? Were ever flowers so gay? How sweetly smiled the hill, the vale, And all the landscape round! The river gliding down the dale, The hill with beeches crown'd! But now, when urged by tender woes, I speed to meet my dear, That hill and stream my zeal oppose, And check my fond career. No more, since Daphne was my theme, Their wonted charms I see; That verdant hill and silver stream, Divide my love and me.
