To sit in that glass-cover'd blue studio;

In front of those boxes, wherein when you look

Your image reversed will minutely appear,

So delicate, forcible, brilliant, and clear,

So small, full, and round, with a life so profound,

As none ever wore

In a mirror before;

Or the depths of a glassy and branch-shelter'd brook,

That glides amidst moss o'er a smooth-pebbled ground.

Apollo, whom Drummond of Hawthornden styled