While horn-blind: but the moment I step forth—

Oh, I must needs o' the sudden prove a lynx

And look the heart, that stone-wall, through and through!

Such an eye, God's may be,—not yours nor mine.

Yes, presently ... what hour is fleeting now?

When you cut earth away from under me,

I shall be left alone with, pushed beneath

Some such an apparitional dread orb

As the eye of God, since such an eye there glares:

I fancy it go filling up the void