And, though this weak soul sink and darkness whelm,

Some little word shall light it, raise aloft,

To where I clearlier see and better love,

As I again go o'er the tracts of thought

Like one who has a right, and I shall live

With poets, calmer, purer still each time,

And beauteous shapes will come for me to seize,

And unknown secrets will be trusted me

Which were denied the waverer once; but now

I shall be priest and prophet as of old.