And all his talk was tales of magic words

And of the nations in the clouds above,

Astral and aerish tribes who fish for birds

With angles. And by history he could prove

How chosen spirits from earth had won their love,

As Arthur, or Usheen: and to their isle

Went Helen for the sake of a Greek smile.

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And ever in his talk he mustered well

His texts and strewed old authors round the way,