Though never ase until a later day 



AssaQ'd thj' forests' huge antiquity. 



Yet elder Fame had many tales of thee — 



Wliether Pha?nician shipman far astray 



Had brought uncertain notices away 



Of islands dreaming in the middle sea ; 



Or that man's heart, which struggles to be free 



From this old worn-out world, had never stay 



Till, for a place to rest on, it had foimd 



A region out of ken, that happier isle, 



AVliich the mild ocean breezes blow around. 



Where they who thrice upon this mortal stage 



Had kept their hands from wrong, their hearts from gmle, 



ShoiUd come at length, and live a tearless age. 



, Teench. 



I'B1>"TED BY T-VYLOll AND FKANCIS, 

 RED LION COtTHT, FLEET STREET. 



