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,