At first wash-over o' the returning wave!

All the dry dead impracticable stuff

Starts into life and light again; this world

Pervaded by the influx from the next.

I cheat, and what 's the happy consequence?

You find full justice straightway dealt you out,

Each want supplied, each ignorance set at ease,

Each folly fooled. No life-long labor now

As the price of worse than nothing! No mere film

Holding you chained in iron, as it seems,