My soul with vast inquietude doth burn.

Rare drafts are there within thy luscious cup

That I may put my lips upon its brim,

And, sloughing off Earth’s smutch and soilure, quaff

Deeply the secrets of eternal ease?

Or sway’st thou merely as a transient whim,

Idle, capricious, windward-driven chaff?

Yet surely, surely thou art more than these!

Or very All, or very Nothing: why

Hast thou upspoken thirst for what is not