1. ۱THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all,
2. ۲Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,
3. ۳In dulcet streams, in flutes’ and cornets’ notes,
4. ۴Electric, pensive, turbulent artificial,
5. ۵(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,
6. ۶Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
7. ۷Not to the city’s fresco’d rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,
8. ۸Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
9. ۹Sonnambula’s innocent love, trios with Norma’s anguish,
10. ۱۰And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;)
11. ۱۱Ray’d in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,
12. ۱۲Music, Italian music in Dakota.
13. ۱۳
14. ۱۴While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl’d realm,
15. ۱۵Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,
16. ۱۶Acknowledging rapport however far remov’d,
17. ۱۷(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
18. ۱۸Listens well pleas’d.