And with both scorn and terror fill.

XXIX.

Now are they seated at a board

In that cold grandeur—I am there.

But what can mummied kings afford?

This is their meagre ghostly fare,

And proves what fleshless things they stare!

Yes! I am seated with the dead: 230

How great, and yet how mean they are!

Yes! I can scorn them while I dread?