With captive kings to urge his serried oars,

Hopeful of dales where amaranthine dawn

Hath never left the faintly sighing lote

And fields of lisping moly. Or I fare,

Impanoplied with azure diamond,

As hero of a quest Achernar lights,

To deserts filled with ever-wandering flames,

That feed upon the sullen marl, and soar

To wrap the slopes of mountains, and to leap,

With tongues intolerably lengthening,