Then sunk, and sunk away, like Fear

Holding her breath. Again, it swell’d!

I thought some fairy’s death-peal knell’d.

XXIII.

It was a wind-harp’s magic strong,

Mov’d by the breeze in dreamy song;

But I was gone too far to know

What stirr’d my troubled spirit so,

And in my fancy, came a flood

Of visions, strange to flesh and blood,