Quiet—sank into softer ripples, gliding

Into a rivulet; and thus allayed,

Pursued its course, now gleaming, and now hiding

Its windings through the woods; now clear, now blue,

According as the skies their shadows threw.

LIX.

A glorious remnant of the Gothic pile

(While yet the Church was Rome's) stood half apart

In a grand Arch, which once screened many an aisle.

These last had disappeared—a loss to Art: