II + 

Like rock or stone, it is o’ergrown + 

With lichens to the very top, + 

And hung with heavy tufts of moss, + 

A melancholy crop: + 

Up from the earth these mosses creep, + 

And this poor Thorn they clasp it round + 

So close, you’d say that they were bent + 

With plain and manifest intent + 

To drag it to the ground; + 

And all had joined in one endeavour + 

To bury this poor Thorn for ever. + 