It has conformed itself to that dim orb,

Reflecting all its shades and shapes, and now

Must stay where it alone can be adored.

I have felt this in dreams—in dreams in which

I seemed the fate from which I fled; I felt

A strange delight in causing my decay.

I was a fiend in darkness chained forever

Within some ocean-cave; and ages rolled,

Till through the cleft rock, like a moonbeam, came

A white swan to remain with me; and ages