Suspended cliffs, with hideous sway,

Seem’d nodding o’er the cavern gray.

From such a den the wolf had sprung,

In such the wild-cat leaves her young;

Yet Douglas and his daughter fair

Sought for a space their safety there.

Gray Superstition’s whisper dread

Debarr’d the spot to vulgar tread;

For there, she said, did fays resort,

And satyrs[217] hold their silvan court,