Things to a shape which suits the close of things, and cast

Palpably o'er vexed earth heaven's mantle of repose?

CXX

Just so, in Venice' Square, that things were at the close

Was signalled to my sense; for I perceived arrest

O' the change all round about. As if some impulse pressed

Each gently into each, what was distinctness, late,

Grew vague, and, line from line no longer separate,

No matter what its style, edifice ... shall I say,

Died into edifice? I find no simpler way