Opens this lake’s calm beauty to the sight.
3. What is this light illuminating night?
So clear, so perfect, so intense, so white.
4. Here sit the conquering lords, and here receive
Their subjects’ homage or their woes relieve;
And here assemble, for affairs of State,
The dusky, jewelled chiefs in high debate.
5. A secret Brotherhood in virtue’s cause,
Ruled by morality and reason’s laws;
Yet governments are often most unjust,