THE CLOISTER, OR FORE-COURT.

ASTRALIS.

Upon a summer morning was I young;

Then felt I for the first my own life-pulse,

And while in deeper raptures Love dissolved,

My sense of life unfolded; and my longing

For more entire and inward dissolution,

Was every moment more importunate.

My being's plastic power is delight;

I am the central point, the holy source,