All-overpowering, baffling bravest wit,

Wild spirit spurning cage of time or name,

Furious intangible fire, no duteous thought

Can deal with thee, to no calm altar-flame

Confine, nor wish acceptable,—O if aught

From such dumb need can reach aught’s hearing ear,

This is it now, O hear, O hear, O hear!

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In love’s great ocean, whose calm-shelter’d shore

Must he for ever leave, whose soul is bound