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