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Mocking their greyness, while their tottering craves A sigh at proud man's vain endeavour To build with hands his tower of glory, His monument of dust and storyYet Etna's fire is darken'd never, And these bright waters roll as ever!

The moonlight pours out in a flood,
And silvering over land and sea,
With a broad track of placid light,
Makes upon ocean's solitude
A path for spirits of the night
That joy in her tranquillity.
Now thoughts unutterable rise,
And shapes of unveil'd mysteries,

And wishes (oh, how vain they be!)
That man unchanged and changeless were,
Like those eternal rocks-that he
His own works might at least survive,
Nor find all things his race outlive.
Vain dream! how prone we are to rear
Temples of hope upon despair!

Enough-proud ruin, prouder theme,
Relic of everlasting Greece,
That wanted not thy aid nor fame
To triumph-for her resting-place
Is fresh as in her summer-days:

Perennial green is on her bowers,
Her fanes may fall as ruin lays

Its withering touch on halls and towers,
But her great name can shew in truth
The eagle's renovated youth.
Thou, Temple, art her labour-thou-
I've seen thee, like a mighty stone
Cast by some giant of the sky

Where haughty Alpine summits frown-
A lofty glorious ruin now

Of a departed majesty,

The moonbeams sleep upon thee-shades
In massy grandeur thou hast cast

A garment round thee-awe pervades

Thy cell, and pediment, and walls,

That slumber like the patriot dead

Who cannot wake when freedom calls.

An atmosphere of glories past

Hangs round thee, as round memory's brow
Sad music's note in young life heard,
That never half so sweet appear'd,
So melancholy sweet as now-

Deepening its charm with years, the strain
Sinks in the heart, nor sinks in vain.

Ye massy colopnades, farewell!

Ye still will be when long is dead
The fleeting race that now ye view-
And hoarier yet shall be your head-
Buying like Man your length of years
With dead friends, loneliness, and fears.

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IV. The Lady of the Castle

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