Tell thee what phantoms thicken in its air.

Twine thou thy gentle fingers, slumber-fraught,

With the loose shreds of my disheveled hair:

I shall see inly better if thou keep

My outer senses in a charmed sleep.

Sweet friend!—I love that pleasant name of friend—

We walk not ever singly, through the world;

But even as our shadow doth attend

Our going in the sunshine, and is furled

About us in the darkness—so that shade