My brow seems tightening with the Doctor's cap,

And I walk gowned; feel unusual powers.

Strange forms of logic clothe my admiring speech,

Old Ramus' ghost is busy at my brain;

And my skull teems with notions infinite.

Be still, ye reeds of Camus, while I teach

Truths, which transcend the searching Schoolmen's vein,

And half had stagger'd that stout Stagirite.


[TO A CELEBRATED FEMALE PERFORMER IN
"THE BLIND BOY."]