It was possible , I reflected reflect , that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene , of the details of the picture , would be sufficient to modify , or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and , acting act upon this idea , I reined rein my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling , and gazed gaze down -- but with a shudder shudder even more thrilling thrill than before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the grey sedge , and the ghastly tree-stems , and the vacant and eye-like windows .