Now had Sir Owen feeling: things of late

Indifferent he began to love or hate;

What once could neither good nor ill impart

Now pleased the senses, and now touch’d the heart;

Prospects and pictures struck th’ awaken’d sight, 140

And each new object gave a new delight.

He, like th’ imperfect creature who had shaped

A shroud to hide him, had at length escaped;

Changed from his grub-like state, to crawl no more,

But a wing’d being, pleased and form’d to soar.