An old, gaunt giant-castle, like a gull

Hung on the weedy cliffs, where broke the dull

Vast monotone of ocean, that uprolled

Its windy waters; and where all was old,

And sad, and swept of winds, and slain of salt,

And haunted grim of ruin: where the vault

Of heav'n bent ever, clamorous as the rout

Of the defiant headlands, stretching out

Into the night, with their voluminous shout

Of wreck and wrath forever. Arthur then,