Still do they crowd my soul tumultuously—

The troubling images of that vast world,

Which—living, restless, fearful as it is—

Yet, at the bidding of one master-mind,

E’en as commanded by a demigod,

Seems to fulfil its course. With eagerness,

Yea, with a strange delight, my soul drank in

The strong words of the experienced; but, alas!

The more I listen’d, still the more I sank

In mine own eyes; I seem’d to die away