A bold and elevating terror came;
Yet with dissembling prudence I replied,
‘Know we the laws that may be thus defied?
Should the free spirit to th’ embodied tell
The precious secret, would it not rebel?’
Yet, while I spoke, I felt a pleasing glow
Suffuse my cheek at what I long’d to know;
And I, like Eve transgressing, grew more bold, 530
And wish’d to hear a spirit and behold.
“‘I have no friend,’ said he, ‘to not one man