So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he

For number or proportion. Mockingly

On coop or kennel he hangs [Parian wreaths];

A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;

Fills up the farmer’s lane from wall to wall,

Mauger the farmer’s sighs, and at the gate

A [tapering turret] overtops the work.

And when his [hours are numbered], and the world

Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,

Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art