Vague dreams revealing.

Oh, is it so? Alas! or no,

How be it, Ah! how so?

Is matter going to rule the deathless mind?

What is matter? Is it indeed so?

Oh, truths combined;

Do the Magaloi theoi still tower to and fro?

How do they move? How flow?

Monstrous, aeriform, phantoms sublime,

Come leer at me, and Cadmian teeth my soul gnaw,