Sinking dispirited, the goal be hid
Wrapt in a gloomy mist, ’twill pass awhile,
And thou be all thy strenuous self again. Ally
Thyself to me, nor seek thee to beguile
Idly the transient hours, and all that I
Have shown before thy sight fulfilled shall be.
I say ’t; and am its earnest eternally.”
And then methought I stood on quaking limb,
Forth to proceed upon that wizard way.
Heaven-high the portals towered above me; dim