And when that light withdraws, withdrawing then;—

So do we flutter in the glance of youth

And fervid fancy,—and so perish when

The eye of faith grows aged;—in sad truth,

Feeling thy sway, O Time! though not thy tooth!"

XXIV.

"Where be those old divinities forlorn,

That dwelt in trees, or haunted in a stream?

Alas! their memories are dimm'd and torn,

Like the remainder tatters of a dream: