In the fixed lineaments of nature, rocks and caves,

Even in their fixed and steady lineaments,

He traced an ebbing and a flowing mind,

Expression ever varied."

There "was wanting yet the pure delight of love" in his inspiration, but that came also, and—

"Such was the boy; but for the growing youth

What soul was his, when, from the naked top

Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun

Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He looked—

Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth