And what so common as to dream awake?

On others thus do ghostly guests intrude?

Or why am I by such advice pursued?

One out of millions who exist, and why

They know not—cannot know—and such am I; 50

And shall two beings of two worlds, to meet,

The laws of one, perhaps of both, defeat?

It cannot be—But, if some being lives

Who such kind warning to a favourite gives,

Let him these doubts from my dull spirit clear,