Was bred of flesh and innate with the bone

Borne by Pompilia's spirit for a space,

And no mere chance fault, passionate and brief:

Finally, when ye find,—after this touch

Of man's protection which intends to mar

The last pin-point of light and damn the disc,—

One wave of the hand of God amid the worlds

Bid vapor vanish, darkness flee away,

And let the vexed star culminate in peace

Approachable no more by earthly mist—