There, with a little tinge of phantasy,

Fantastic faces moped and mowed on high,

And then a mitre or a shrine would fix

The eye upon its seeming crucifix.

Thus Nature played with the stalactites,[405]

And built herself a Chapel of the Seas.160

VIII.

And Neuha took her Torquil by the hand,

And waved along the vault her kindled brand,