Will the saint vanish from the sinner that repents?

Suppose you are a ghost! A memory, a hope,

A fear, a conscience! Quick! Give back the hand I grope

I' the dusk for!

CXXXI

That is well. Our double horoscope

I cast, while you concur. Discard that simile

O' the fickle element! Elvire is land not sea—

The solid land, the safe. All these word-bubbles came

O' the sea, and bite like salt. The unlucky bath's to blame.