Where only foxes and wild cats intrude,

Till we were come beside an ancient tree

Late blasted by a storm. Here he renew'd

His loud complaints,—choosing that spot to be

The scene of his last horrid tragedy."

LXXVII.

"It was a wild and melancholy glen,

Made gloomy by tall firs and cypress dark,

Whose roots, like any bones of buried men,

Push'd through the rotten sod for fear's remark;