What countenance hath this Day put on for you?

While we looked round with favoured eyes,

Did sullen mists hide lake and skies

And mountains from your view?[534]

Or was it given you to behold

Like vision, pensive though not cold,

From the smooth breast of gay Winandermere?[535]

Saw ye the soft yet awful veil

Spread over Grasmere's lovely dale,

Helvellyn's brow severe?[IL]