In kaleidoscopic glory,

Shifting, fading, restless tents;

Fairy armies wild in motion;

Jewelled shrines of strange devotion;

And a greenish, tideless ocean,

Bound by ice-clad mounts and dents,

Saw we through the curtain's rents!

Transformations still beholding,

Up the veil is swiftly folding—

And fantastic shapes are moulding