He undismayed—“Of travail long and hard
At least some trophy let me bear away.”
—“Lo! then this skull—which if thou wilt regard,
And to my question seek for fit reply,
All thy long labours shall have full reward.
“Once in that hollow circle lodged an eye,
That was, like thine, for ever coveting,
Which worlds on worlds had failed to satisfy.
“Now while thou gazest on that ghastly ring,
From whence of old a greedy eye outspied,