Who stays

Here long must passe

O'er dark hills, swift streames, and steep ways

As smooth as glasse.

Or a brief sickness:--

So for this night I linger here,

And, full of tossings to and fro,

Expect still when thou wilt appear,

That I may get me up and go.

His eyes are fixed on the shining lights that beckon him; the world is full of voices, but its sights and sounds appeal to him in vain; the beauties that surround him are things of naught--