Of rigorous penance and austerest life,

With something too of majesty that still

Appear’d amid the wreck, inspired a sense

Of reverence too. The goat-herd on the hills

Open’d his scrip for him; the babe in arms,

Affrighted at his visage, turn’d away,

And clinging to the mother’s neck in tears

Would yet again look up and then again,

Shrink back, with cry renew’d. The bolder imps

Sporting beside the way, at his approach