O care! O guilt!—O vales and plains,

Here, 'mid[279] his own unvexed domains,

A Genius dwells, that can subdue

At once all memory of You,—

Most potent when mists veil the sky,

Mists that distort and magnify;

While the coarse rushes, to the sweeping breeze,

Sigh forth their ancient melodies!

III

List to those shriller notes!—that march