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We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

William Cowper
Self, Tree, Shade
William Cowper (1872). “The task, Tirocinium, and other poems”, p.8
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.