Sweeping--vehemently sweeping-- Long gazed the chieftain--ere he spake--aloud-- With even voice and stern composure wrought Into his brow by self-supporting thought: "Avaunt, inexplicable Guest--avaunt, Intrusive Phantom! let me rather see What they behold ... MS. Sweeping--vehemently sweeping-- No pause admitted--no design avowed! Breathless the chieftain gazed--at length, Endeavouring to collect his strength, With pallid cheek and rueful brow, And a half-pleading, a half-threatening eye, Such as the Fates exclusively allow For the behoof of suffering majesty, He rose and spake aloud-- "Intrusive Presence! let me rather see What they behold, ... MS. ] [Footnote 190: 1820. ... wretched ... MS. ] [Footnote 191: 1820. Ill-fated Lord! O, there are ... MS. Afflicted chief! ... MS. ] [Footnote 192: 1820. Upon the basis of thy ruined name; MS. ] [Footnote 193: 1820. ... name; Away--for hark a rushing sound, A conflict--and a groan profound! MS. ] [Footnote 194: 1820. O monstrous perfidy! ... MS. ] [Footnote 195: 1832. Shudder ... 1820. ] [Footnote 196: 1820. While ... MS. ] [Footnote 197: 1820. To his inborn greatness ... MS. ] [Footnote 198: 1820. Thus ... MS. ] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote CA: See, at the close of the poem (p. 122), several experimental renderings of this stanza, printed from MS.--ED.] [Footnote CB: That Wordsworth knew the Elgin marbles--where the half-recumbent Ilissus, a torso, is one of the finest pieces of the pediment--is certain. There is a reproduction of it in his nephew's (the late Bishop of Lincoln's) book on _Greece_. In Henry Crabb Robinson's _Diary_ (vol. ii. p. 195) there is an interesting account of the poet's visit to the British Museum, to see the Elgin marbles, etc. See also the _Autobiography of B. R. Haydon_, where, in a letter to the artist, Wordsworth says, "I am not surprised to hear that Canova expressed himself highly pleased with the Elgin marbles: a man must be senseless as a clod, or as perverse as a fiend, not to be enraptured with them" (vol. i. p. 325).--ED.] A FACT, AND AN IMAGINATION; OR, CANUTE AND ALFRED, ON THE SEA-SHORE[199] Composed 1816.--Published 1820