Delightful to the eye the yellowish lustre streams---

XV.

Above the strong illumin’d skies,

The clouds in shining volumes, roll’d

Their fleecy skirts bedeckt with gold,

Half-dazzle the spectator’s eyes---

And does the real solar light

150 Flash at present on the sight?

Or, does the pencil’d radiance only flow,

And flowing with such fervour beat