As if with wish to veil the restless orb;

From which it did itself imbibe a ray

Of pleasing lustre.—But no more of this;

I better love to sprinkle on the sod

That[654] now divides the pair, or rather say,

That[655] still unites them, praises, like heaven's dew,

Without reserve descending[656] upon both.

[657]"Our very first in eminence of years

This old Man stood, the patriarch of the Vale!

And, to his unmolested mansion, death