XXX.

Till, in that rush of visions, I became

As one that, by the bands of slumber wound,

Lies with a powerless but all-thrilling frame,

Intense in consciousness of sight and sound,

Yet buried in a wildering dream which brings

Loved faces round him, girt with fearful things!

Troubled even thus I stood, but chain’d and bound

On that familiar form mine eye to keep:

Alas! I might not fall upon his neck and weep!