Beneath me, like their Eglamor, have set

An impress on our gift? So, men believe

And worship what they know not, nor receive

Delight from. Have they fancies—slow, perchance,

Not at their beck, which indistinctly glance

Until, by song, each floating part be linked

To each, and all grow palpable, distinct?"

He pondered this.

Meanwhile, sounds low and drear

Stole on him, and a noise of footsteps, near