The world: the Fair expands into the Carnival,

And Carnival again to ... ah, but that 's my dream!

XCII

I somehow played the piece: remarked on each old theme

I' the new dress; saw how food o' the soul, the stuff that 's made

To furnish man with thought and feeling, is purveyed

Substantially the same from age to age, with change

Of the outside only for successive feasters, Range

The banquet-room o' the world, from the dim farthest head

O' the table, to its foot, for you and me bespread,