10 MONOGRAPH OF DURA DEN. 



Their home green ocean-caves and plains and vales- 

 Start from the rock at every clanging blow, 

 Filling the dusty workman with amaze, 

 And wafting back the sage's puzzled thoughts 

 O'er the dusk gulf of dim, unnumber'd years ! 



What sea, receding from what former world, 

 Consign'd these tribes to stony sepulchres 1 

 Bewilder'd sage ! proclaim thy wisdom folly, 

 And where thy Reason fails let Faith begin : 

 The rocks have sacred secrets of their own, 

 That teach the wise humility and praise. 



