So calm—if thou shouldst wear a brow less light

For some wild thought which, but for me, were kept

From out thy soul as from a sacred star!

Yet till I have unlocked them it were vain

To hope to sing; some woe would light on me;

Nature would point at one whose quivering lip

Was bathed in her enchantments, whose brow burned

Beneath the crown to which her secrets knelt,

Who learned the spell which can call up the dead,

And then departed smiling like a fiend