Here would not linger, willingly detained?

Whether to such wild objects he were led

When copious rains have magnified the stream

Into a loud and white-robed waterfall,

Or introduced at this more quiet time.

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Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground,

The hidden nook discovered to our view

A mass of rock, resembling, as it lay

Right at the foot of that moist precipice,