He saw strange somethings rise and dip;
He felt the weirdness like a pall
Come down and cover him.
It seem'd
To take a form, take many forms,
To talk to him, to reach out arms;
Yet on he kept, and silent kept,
And as he led he lean'd and slept,
And as he slept he talk'd and dream'd.
Then shadows follow'd, stopp'd, and stood