To think of one, blind and alone, advancing
Straight toward some precipice's airy brink![677]
But, timely warned, He would have stayed his steps,
Protected, say enlightened, by his ear;
And on the very edge[678] of vacancy
Not more endangered than a man whose eye
Beholds the gulf beneath.—No floweret blooms
Throughout the lofty range of these rough hills,
Nor[679] in the woods, that could from him conceal
Its birth-place; none whose figure did not live