Dispirited:[146] when, all at once, behold!
Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale,[BU]
A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high
Among the mountains; even as if the spot
Had been from eldest time by wish of theirs
So placed, to be shut out from all the world!
Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn;[BU]
With rocks encompassed, save that to the south
Was one small opening,[BV] where a heath-clad ridge
Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close;