XIX

Amid a fertile region green with wood

And fresh with rivers, well didit become

The ducal Owner, in his palace-home

To naturalise this tawny Lion brood;

Children of Art, that claim strange brotherhood

( Couched in their den ) with those that roam at large

Over the burning wilderness, and charge

The wind with terror while they roar for food.

Satiate are these; and stilled to eye and ear;

Hence, while we gaze,a more enduring fear!

Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave

Daunt him — if his Companions, now be-drowsed

Outstretchedand listless, were by hunger roused:

Man placed him here, and God, he knows, can save.