Yet by a special gift, an art of arts,

More insight and more outsight and much more

Will to use both of these than boast my mates,

I can detach from me, commission forth

Half of my soul; which in its pilgrimage

O'er old unwandered waste ways of the world,

May chance upon some fragment of a whole,

Rag of flesh, scrap of bone in dim disuse,

Smoking flax that fed fire once: prompt therein

I enter, spark-like, put old powers to play,