Fixed, like the Templar of the steep,

An everlasting watch to keep;

With local sanctities in trust,

More precious than a hermit's dust;

And virtues through the mass infused,

Which old idolatry abused.

What though the Granite would deny

All fervour to the sightless eye;

And touch from rising suns in vain

Solicit a Memnonian strain;[P]