The whole place was like a mad, sweet-scented dream to one just come from the unfeatured ocean, and with a memory only of grim Scots cities and dour Scots hills.

All the past is strangely blended In a mist of colours splendid, But chaotic as to form, An unfeatured beauty-storm.

'A visage rough, Deform'd, unfeatured.' 18. HOR.

But the human back!It is the other, the dark side of the human moon; the blind side of the being, defenseless, and exposed to every thing; the ignorant side, turned toward the abyss of its unknown origin; the unfeatured side, eyeless and dumb and helplessthe enduring animal of the marvelous commonwealth, to be given to the smiter, and to bend beneath the burdenlovely in its patience and the tender forms of its strength.