Castleton, high in Braemar, were the clippingest places for bathing;

One by the bridge in the village, indecent, the Town Hall christened.

Where had Lauder howbeit been bathing, and Harrison also,

Harrison even, the Tutor; another like Hesperus here, and

Up the water of Eye, half-a-dozen at least, all stunners.

And it was told, the Piper narrating and Arthur correcting,

Colouring he, dilating, magniloquent, glorying in picture,

He to a matter-of-fact still softening, paring, abating,

He to the great might-have-been upsoaring, sublime and ideal,

He to the merest it-was restricting, diminishing, dwarfing,