As redly up and out and off they reeled

Like disconcerted imps, those thousand sparks

From fire's slow tunnelling of vaults and arcs!

III

Up, out, and off, see! Were you never used,—

You now, in childish days or rather nights,—

As I was, to watch sparks fly? not amused

By that old nurse-taught game which gave the sprites

Each one his title and career,—confused

Belief 't was all long over with the flights