His vast delight was mixed with equal awe,
There was such magic in the things he saw;
Oft standing still, with open mouth and eyes }
Turn’d here and there, alarm’d as one who tries }
T’ escape from something strange that would before him rise. }
The wall would part, and beings without name
Would come—for such to his adventures came; 310
Hence undefined and solemn terror press’d
Upon his mind, and all his powers possess’d.
All he had read of magic, every charm,