As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas:
and from those On first looking into Chapman’s Homer:
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been,
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told,
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene