And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,

Driv’n by the spheres

Like a vast shadow mov’d, in which the world

And all her train were hurl’d.”

There is a wonderful magnificence about this; and what a Bunyan-like reality is given to the vision by “the other night”!

Man.

“Weighing the stedfastness and state

Of some mean things which here below reside,

Where birds like watchful Clocks the noiseless date

And Intercourse of times divide,