My thoughts which long had grovell'd in the slime

Of this dull world, like dusky worms which house

Beneath unshaken waters, but at once

Upon some earth-awakening day of spring

Do pass from gloom to glory, and aloft

Winnow the purple, bearing on both sides

Double display of starlit wings which burn

Fanlike and fibred, with intensest bloom:

E'en so my thoughts, erewhile so low, now felt

Unutterable buoyancy and strength