In the midst a form divine,[54]

Her port proclaims her of the Kemble line;

Her light’ning eye, her awe-commanding face,

Attemper’d sweet to ev’ry grace.

What sounds of acclamation fill the air!

What strains of trembling rapture round her play;

Hear from thy grave, immortal Shakespeare, hear;

She breathes a soul to animate thy clay;

Bright nature calls, and, soaring as she sings,

Waves, in the eye of Heaven, her many-colour’d wings.