Might rest, stood open, and the eye could scan

Through length of porch and lake and boundless hall,

Part of a throne of fiery flame, wherefrom

The snowy skirting of a garment hung,

And glimpse of multitudes of multitudes

That minister'd around it—if I saw

These things distinctly, for my human brain

Stagger'd beneath the vision, and thick night

Came down upon my eyelids, and I fell.

With ministering hand he rais'd me up;