| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. The Pine Woods | | By Sir John Hanmer (1809–1881) |
| | | WE stand upon the Moorish mountain-side, | |
| From age to age, a solemn company; | |
| There are no voices in our paths, but we | |
| Hear the great whirlwinds roaring loud and wide, | |
| And like the sea-waves have our boughs replied, | 5 |
| From the beginning, to their stormy glee; | |
| The thunder rolls above us, and some tree | |
| Smites with his bolt; yet doth the race abide, | |
| Answering all times; but joyous, when the sun | |
| Glints on the peaks that clouds no longer bear; | 10 |
| And the young shoots to flourish have begun; | |
| And the quick seeds through the blue odorous air | |
| From the expanding cones fall one by one; | |
| And silence, as in temples, dwelleth there. | | | | |
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