LVII.

Before the mansion lay a lucid Lake,[670]Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed

By a river, which its softened way did take

In currents through the calmer water spread

Around: the wildfowl nestled in the brake

And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed:

The woods[671] sloped downwards to its brink, and stood

With their green faces fixed upon the flood.

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