So commenced

That "Walk" amid true wonders—none to you,

But huge to us ignobly common-sensed,

Purblind, while plain could proper optics view

In that old sepulchre by lightning split,

Whereof the lid bore carven,—any dolt

Imagines why,—Jove's very thunderbolt:

You who could straight perceive, by glance at it,

This tomb must needs be Phaeton's! In a trice,

Confirming that conjecture, close on hand,