By a brook-side or solitary tarn,

How she her station doth adorn: the pool

Glows at her feet, and all the gloomy rocks

Are brightened round her. In his native vale

Such and so glorious did this Youth appear;

A sight that kindled pleasure in all hearts

By his ingenuous beauty, by the gleam

Of his fair eyes, by his capacious brow,

By all the graces with which nature's hand

Had lavishly[703] arrayed him. As old bards