From haunted spring and dale

Edg'd with poplar pale

The parting genius is with sighing sent.

John Milton (1608-1674): Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 184.

And every shepherd tells his tale

Under the hawthorn in the dale.

John Milton (1608-1674): L'Allegro. Line 67.

The intelligible forms of ancient poets,

The fair humanities of old religion,

The power, the beauty, and the majesty

That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,

Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,

Or chasms and watery depths,—all these have vanished;

They live no longer in the faith of reason.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Wallenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 4. (Translated from Schiller.)

And every shepherd tells his tale

Under the hawthorn in the dale.

John Milton (1608-1674): L'Allegro. Line 67.