Within my dreams, and broke apart their spell,
And drew aside the curtains of their couch,
And spoke of dawn, and light for all the world.
“First learn about this world,” he urged, “and then
Learn how to help it. Minds like mine,” he said,
“Should teach, revise, reform, and start the thought
To counteract ill aim’d philosophy.
Here loom’d an end worth reaching! which to reach
’Twere well to cross the sea.—His purse was mine.
And go you as a student,” Elbert said,