That widens round him as he pierces through

The folded darkness, from his sovereign height

Slays with a smile the dragon-gloom of night.

Luc. All you have heard and witness’d hitherto

But a foretaste to quicken appetite

For that substantial after-feast of power

That I shall set you down to take your fill of:

When not the fleeting elements alone

Of wind, and fire, and water, floating wrack,

But this same solid frame of earth and stone,