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ELEGIAC STANZAS,Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm,paintedBY SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT.
I was thy Neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:I saw thee every day; and all the whileThy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea.
So pure the sky, so quiet was the air!So like, so very like, was day to day!When'er I look'd, thy Image still was there;It trembled, but it never pass'd away.
How perfect was the calm! it seem'd no sleep;No mood, which season takes away, or brings:I could have fancied that the mighty DeepWas even the gentlest of all gentle Things.
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