Deep in the sheltering thicket hide.

Then bears and tigers shalt thou view

Whose soft skins show the sapphire's hue,

And silvan deer that wander nigh

Shall harmless from thy presence fly.

High in that mountain's wooded side

Is a fair cavern deep and wide,

Yet hard to enter: piles of rock

The portals of the cavern block.[521]

Fast by the eastern door a pool