Waiting to welcome me. And when I think

To reach and clasp the figure, it is gone,

And some ill-omened ghastly vision comes

To bid beware, and not too curiously

Demand the secrets of that distant world,

Whose shadow haunts me.—On the waves below

But now I gazed, warmed with the setting sun,

Who sent his golden streamers to my feet,

It seemed a pathway to a world beyond,

And I looked round, if that my spirit beckoned