Upon this scene, this show, Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth, (Nor in caprice alone -- some grains of deepest meaning,) Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-cloud's blended shapes, As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul, Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct -- a towering human form, In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips, Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down. |