Vainly!

What fairy track do I explore?

What magic hall return to, like the gem

Centuply-angled o'er a diadem?

You dwell there, hearted; from your midmost home

Rays forth—through that fantastic world I roam

Ever—from centre to circumference,

Shaft upon colored shaft: this crimsons thence,

That purples out its precinct through the waste.

Surely I had your sanction when I faced,