He ask’d and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same.”

Spirit! so oft in radiant freedom soaring

High through seraphic mysteries unconfined,

And oft, a diver through the deep of mind,

Its caverns, far below its waves, exploring;

And oft such strains of breezy music pouring,

As, with the floating sweetness of their sighs,

Could still all fevers of the heart, restoring

Awhile that freshness left in Paradise;

Say, of those glorious wanderings what the goal?