Ere Julius landed on her white-cliffed shore,

They sank, delivered o'er

To fatal dissolution, and I ween

No vestige there was left that such had ever been.

Stanza 2

Yet in unvanquished Cambria lay concealed

'Mid Snowdon's forests, or by Vaga's springs,

A Book whose leaves to later times revealed

The {mighty|wondrous} course of these forgotten things,

How Brutus sailed, by oracles impelled,