Then my Heavenly Guide addressing—
For a wondrous power had birth
In my nature, all expressing—
"What are these, and where belong they?"—and my Guide responded—"Earth—
For thy spirit turns spontaneous to its own domestic hearth."
"Where am I, O Radiant Spirit?
Where amid the realms of space?
Distant from the Earth, or near it?"—
"Where the rays projected from it at the birth-time of thy race
Have not yet attained;—a distance more than mortal thought may trace."