At our feet, winding round a "lawny islet" and through a valley luxuriant in corn-fields and meadows, flowed the broad river, bluer than the sky.

In secret moods of mercy and soft dole, Old warpèd wrecks and things of mouldering death That summer scorns and man abandoneth His careful hands console With lawny robes and draperies of snow.

The little parterre to be described, includes the sheltered town of Dorking, environed with rich lawny slopes, variegated with villas in the last taste; and little heights, from whose clustering foliage peeps the cottage roof of humble life.

That from the sun-redoubling valley lift Cool to the middle air their lawny tops.

It is sweet indeed to go, Musing through the lawny vale: alluded to by Warton, or over Milton's "level downs," or to climb up Thomson's Stupendous rocks