To mortal succour, though the tomb

Had fixed, for ever fixed, their doom!

III

Upon[17] those servants of another world

When madding Power[18] her bolts had hurled,

Their habitation shook;—it fell,

And perished, save one narrow cell;

Whither, at length, a Wretch retired

Who neither grovelled nor aspired:

He, struggling in the net of pride,