Which, while they feed on dust in narrow room,

Find from the wanderer’s foot their death-blow and their tomb.

Is it not dust that this old wall

From all its musty benches shows me?

And dust the trifling trumperies all

That in this world of moths enclose me?

Here is it that I hope to find

Wherewith to sate my craving mind?

Need I spell out page after page,

To know that men in every age