His swooning eye, his eyrie won,

And slumbers, frozen by frosty spells

Fast to the pinnacle; but at Morn

Unfetter’d leaps toward the Sun.

. . . . .

He heard, he saw. Not to the air

Dared breathe a breath; but with his sight

Wreak’d on Immortals mortal wrong,

And dared to see them as they were—

The black Peaks blacken’d in their light,