And, at the day's end, boast the crown's award—

Be warranted as promising to wield

Weapons, no sham, in a true battlefield.

LXIV

Meantime, our simulated thunderclaps

Which tell us counterfeited truths—these same

Are—sound, when music storms the soul, perhaps?

—Sight, beauty, every dart of every aim

That touches just, then seems, by strange relapse,

To fall effectless from the soul it came