—A few rude monuments of mountain-stone
Survive; all else is swept away.—How bright
The appearances of things! From such, how changed
The existing worship; and with those compared,
The worshippers how innocent and blest!
So wide the difference, a willing mind
Might almost think, at this affecting hour,[886]
That paradise, the lost abode of man,
Was raised again: and to a happy few,
In its original beauty, here restored.