And hideous aspect, stalking round and round!

A woman's garb the Phantom wore,

And fiercely swept the marble floor,—

Like Auster whirling to and fro,[187]

His force on Caspian foam to try;

Or Boreas when he scours the snow

That skins the plains of Thessaly,

Or when aloft on Mænalus he stops

His flight, 'mid eddying pine-tree tops!

IV