As ever made a maniac dizzy,

When disenchanted from the mood

That loves on sullen thoughts to brood!

O Nature—in thy changeful visions,

Through all thy most abrupt transitions[28]

Smooth, graceful, tender, or sublime—

Ever averse to pantomime,

Thee neither do they know nor us

Thy servants, who can trifle thus;

Else verily[29] the sober powers