Its flight to the far bourn that parts from nothing, thing,

Careering o’er the boundless fields of ecstasy,

Where fancy joins reality in entity.

Far-reaching more’s nonentity than fancy’s stretch;

And thus, his fancy is a source of woe to wretch.85

Then, being’s narrower far than fancy’s power of wing;

E’en as the full moon wanes, till it becomes a string.

The world of matter and its forms is narrower still;

A prison all too strait for mind to have its will.

Plurality and composition are the cause;