XVI.

What, there’s nothing in the moon note-worthy?

Nay: for if that moon could love a mortal,

Use, to charm him (so to fit a fancy)

All her magic (’tis the old sweet mythos)

She would turn a new side to her mortal,

Side unseen of herdsman, huntsman, steersman—

Blank to Zoroaster on his terrace,

Blind to Galileo on his turret,

Dumb to Homer, dumb to Keats—him, even!