When, stopping his benevolent employ,

A presage shuddered through the welkin; harsh

The earth's remonstrance followed. 'T was the marsh

Gone of a sudden. Mincio, in its place,

Laughed, a broad water, in next morning's face,

And, where the mists broke up immense and white

I' the steady wind, burned like a spilth of light

Out of the crashing of a myriad stars.

And here was nature, bound by the same bars

Of fate with him!