Surrounds thee mouldering dust alone,

The grinning skull and skeleton.

Arise! forth to the fields, arise!

And this mysterious magic page,

From Nostradamus’ hand so sage,[n1]

Should guide thee well. Thy raptured eyes

Shall then behold what force compels

The tuneful spheres to chime together;

When, taught by Nature’s mightiest spells,

Thine innate spring of soul upwells,