Of winter’s household, they keep festival 195

This day, who drooped, or seemed to droop, so long;

They shew their pleasure, and shall I do less?

Happiest of happy though I be, like them

I cannot take possession of the sky,

Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, 200

One of a mighty multitude, whose way

Is a perpetual harmony, and dance

Magnificent. Behold, how with a grace

Of ceaseless motion,[362] that might scarcely seem