Its torrents could not tame;

Though stillness lay, with eve’s last smile,

Round those far fountains of the Nile.

Night came with stars. Across his soul

There swept a sudden change:

E’en at the pilgrim’s glorious goal,

A shadow dark and strange

Breathed from the thought, so swift to fall

O’er triumph’s hour—and is this all?[328]

No more than this! What seem’d it now