[33] The Tower of Babel (see Gen. xi. 1-9). [34] The many-storied tower-like temples of the Chinese and Hindoos are called "pagodas." About each story there is a balcony decorated with pendants or numerous projecting points or crests. [35] Bright. XII. Boon[36] nature scatter'd, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale and violet flower, Found in each cleft a narrow bower; Foxglove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain. With boughs that quaked at every breath, Gray birch and aspen[37] wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And, higher yet, the pine tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky. Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glist'ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. [36] Kind; bountiful. [37] The trembling poplar, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air. XIII. Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim. Lost for a space, through thickets veering, But broader when again appearing, Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace; And farther as the Hunter stray'd, Still broader sweep its channel made. The shaggy mounds no longer stood, Emerging from the tangled wood, But, wave-encircled, seem'd to float, Like castle girdled with its moat; Yet broader floods extending still Divide them from their parent hill, Till each, retiring, claims to be An islet in an inland sea. XIV.