Fraught with the orient spoil of many marbles,

Like altars ranged along the broad canal,

Seem each a trophy of some mighty deed

Rear’d up from out the waters, scarce less strangely

Than those more massy and mysterious giants

Of architecture, those Titanian fabrics,

Which point in Egypt’s plains to times that have

No other record. All is gentle: nought

Stirs rudely; but, congenial with the night,

Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit.