Kindles beneath their aspect,[213] and his mien,

All fired with stormy joy, by that soft light is seen.

XLV.

Oh! wild presumption of a conqueror’s dream,

To gaze on those pure altar-fires, enshrined

In depths of blue infinitude, and deem

They shine to guide the spoiler of mankind

O’er fields of blood! But with the restless mind

It hath been ever thus! and they that weep

For worlds to conquer, o’er the bounds assign’d