Shaggy and bold, and wreathèd horns superb,

The breathing creature stood; as beautiful,

Beneath him, shewed his shadowy counterpart.

Each had his glowing mountains, each his sky,

And each seemed centre of his own fair world:

Antipodes unconscious of each other,

Yet, in partition, with their several spheres,

Blended in perfect stillness, to our sight![KS]

"Ah! what a pity were it to disperse,

Or to disturb, so fair a spectacle,