Recalled the same to live within his soul as heretofore.

LVIII

And, even as I hold and have Eidotheé,

I say, I cannot think that gain,—which would not be

Except a special soul had gained it,—that such gain

Can ever be estranged, do aught but appertain

Immortally, by right firm, indefeasible,

To who performed the feat, through God's grace and man's will!

Gain, never shared by those who practised with earth's stuff,

And spoiled whate'er they touched, leaving its roughness rough,