—Simple dust it seemed—and half-unstop a phial:

—Out dropped harmless dew. "Mixed nothings make" (quoth he)

"Something!" So they did: a thunderclap, but louder—

Lightning-flash, but fiercer—put spectators' nerves to trial:

Sure enough, we learned what was, imagined what might be.

Had I no experience how a lip's mere tremble,

Look's half hesitation, cheek's just change of color,

These effect a heartquake,—how should I conceive

What a heaven there may be? Let it but resemble

Earth myself have known! No bliss that's finer, fuller,