"You behold,

High on the breast of yon dark mountain, dark

With stony barrenness,[GT] a shining speck

Bright as a sunbeam sleeping till a shower

Brush it away, or cloud pass over it;

And such it might be deemed—a sleeping sunbeam;

But 'tis a plot of cultivated ground,

Cut off, an island in the dusky waste;

And that attractive brightness is its own.

The lofty site, by nature framed to tempt