So; take our secret back to sleep with us:—

And in that sleep I know that thou wilt choose

The fact, and leave the dream, and so disdain

These far-off splendours, catch the nearer joy,

Take squalid kisses, banish crested love

Intangible. Delights it thee, my friend,

To reach the summits unattained before,

And stumble on their snows? Thine old desire

Was just to touch the mere impalpable.

To formulate the formless. Otherwise