Whirl’d round its vast undeviating course:
Nine times the sun (obscured but only twice)
Obey’d the law and paid his sacrifice:
As oft the moon in reverential robes
Stood forth predominant among the globes;[210]
And only once—and that in love it seems—
The halo atmosphere impair’d her beams:
The stars, obedient to the mighty Hand,
Imparted promise to Jane Hollybrand.
But now alas! alas! that dreadful pow’r[211]