Break into new dimensions, passing from sight

While the airman glides and circles down, they rose,

And the outer City, vanishing, revealed

The secret life within. At once I passed

Through walls of stone on those ethereal wings;

And, as an unseen spirit might survey

A crowded theatre from above, I saw

A packed assembly, gazing, hushed and still,

At certain famous leaders of that hour

On their raised daïs. Henslow in the midst,