Is it not lonely on the serene height,

My lord?

Aris. The gods are sometimes there. [Exit Ocrastes]

The gods?

Vain words on vainer tongue. O, man, man, man!

Weak child of limit and unwinged desire,

Coping with deity in daring bout,

And drowned at last within a woman's tear!

... Hyperion fixed in calm. Ay, true it is

That in the heaven of my sphering mind