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,