• The shapes that frowned before the eyes
      Of the early world have fled,
    And all the life of earth and skies,
      Of streams and seas, is dead.

    Forgotten is the Titan’s fame,
      The dread Chimæra now
    Is but a mild innocuous flame
      Upon a mountain’s brow,
    Around whose warmth its strawberry red
    The arbutus hangs and goatherds...