And looked down over Attica; or he

Who has sailed where picturesque Constantinople is,

Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea

In small-eyed China's crockery-ware metropolis,

Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh,[KK]

May not think much of London's first appearance—

But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence!

VIII.

Don Juan had got out on Shooter's Hill;

Sunset the time, the place the same declivity