On vegetation, that with progress slow

Where man forbears to fix his foot, will grow;

The window’s depth and dust repell’d the ray

Of the moon’s light and of the setting day;

Pictures there were, and each display’d a face

And form that gave their sadness to the place;

The frame and canvas show’d that worms unseen,

Save in their works, for years had working been;

A fire of brushwood on the irons laid }

All the dull room in fitful views display’d, 100}