Authoritative edict, bidding thee

Heed, as my fount is high, my voice o’erleaps

Articular creed, swift to thy resonant soul

Brooding deliberative. Well knowest thou

That evanescent languors do beguile

The soul’s high bent. Wherefore,—save that thine eye

Hath glimpsed a billowy Vision, subtly spun,

Floating upon thy thought, of high control

Fashioning a peerless state, noble and pure,

Whose stately essence not the clammy brow