The flesh, than flesh refine to nerve

Beneath the spirit's play. Advance

No claim to their inheritance

Who chose the spirit's fugitive

Brief gleams, and yearned, 'This were to live

Indeed, if rays, completely pure

From flesh that dulls them, could endure,—

Not shoot in meteor-light athwart

Our earth, to show how cold and swart

It lies beneath their fire, but stand