Thus Harold inly said, and passed along,

Yet not insensible to all which here

Awoke the jocund birds to early song

In glens which might have made even exile dear:

Though on his brow were graven lines austere,

And tranquil sternness, which had ta'en the place

Of feelings fierier far but less severe—

Joy was not always absent from his face,

But o'er it in such scenes would steal with transient trace.