THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S-EASE. BY scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting, By furrowed glade and dell, To feverish men thy calm, sweet face uplifting, Thou stayest them to tell The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. The miner pauses in his rugged labor, And, leaning on his spade, One moment only, for the pick, uplifting, Through root and fibre cleaves, And on the muddy current slowly drifting |