And all thine appanage of lordly dream,

The Dust, wherewith the worm is parcener,

Waits with perennial claim, nor will resign

Its right in thee: All glories and all gleams,

The seven splendours that inform the light,

And beauties immemorial as the moon,

Robing the barren world—all which thine eyes

Hold for inheritance, at length shall fill

The blindness and oblivion of the grave,

And leave it dark.****