All telling mournfully the solemn truth.

Enough, enough: turn to a calmer day.

Here, once, on issuing from the wood,

The gentle Albert[26] stay’d and view’d. * * *

The grandeur of the sight drew forth

A plaudit of most precious worth

(For never did he more pass by that way).

Turn’d ’round, he saw that midway pile,[27] wherein

In safety dwells the black-wing’d fowl,

While foxes ’neath them nightly prowl: