Which sympathized with Time's and Tempest's march,
In gazing on that high and haughty Arch.—[MS.]
[672] {499}[See lines "On Leaving Newstead Abbey," stanza 5, Poetical Works, 1898, i. 3, note 1.]
[MG] But in the stillness of the moon——.—[MS.]
[673] {500}[Vide ante, The Deformed Transformed, Part I. line 532, Poetical Works, 1901, v. 497.]
[674] This is not a frolic invention: it is useless to specify the spot, or in what county, but I have heard it both alone and in company with those who will never hear it more. It can, of course, be accounted for by some natural or accidental cause, but it was a strange sound, and unlike any other I have ever heard (and I have heard many above and below the surface of the earth produced in ruins, etc., etc., or caverns).—[MS.]
["The unearthly sound" may still be heard at rare intervals, but it is difficult to believe that the "huge arch" can act as an Æolian harp. Perhaps the smaller lancet windows may vocalize the wind.]
[MH] {501}Prouder of such a toy than of their breed.—[MS. erased.]
[675] {502}Salvator Rosa. The wicked necessity of rhyming obliges me to adapt the name to the verse.—[MS.]