Down a rocky mountain, buried now and lost

In silent pools, now in strong eddies chained;[584]

But never to be charmed to gentleness:

Its best attainment fits of such repose

As timid eyes might shrink from fathoming.[585][HW]

"A sudden illness seized her in the strength

Of life's autumnal season.—Shall I tell

How on her bed of death the Matron lay,

To Providence submissive, so she thought;

But fretted, vexed, and wrought upon, almost