[FN] See note [FL] p. [243].—Ed.


XV
"FROM THIS DEEP CHASM, WHERE QUIVERING SUNBEAMS PLAY"

From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams play

Upon its loftiest crags, mine eyes behold

A gloomy NICHE, capacious, blank, and cold;[FO]

A concave free from shrubs and mosses grey;

In semblance fresh, as if, with dire affray,

Some Statue, placed amid these regions old

For tutelary service, thence had rolled,