The infant rapture still survived the boy,290

And Loch-na-gar with Ida looked o'er Troy,[388]

Mixed Celtic memories with the Phrygian mount,

And Highland linns with Castalie's clear fount.

Forgive me, Homer's universal shade!

Forgive me, Phœbus! that my fancy strayed;

The North and Nature taught me to adore

Your scenes sublime, from those beloved before.

XIII.

The love which maketh all things fond and fair,