I know it not, nor seek to know:

I only see it swell and grow,

And more than this would not presume.

Meseems, a circling void I fill,

And I, unchanged where all is change;

It seems unreal; I own it strange,

Yet nurse the thoughts I cannot kill.

I hear the oceans surging tide

Raise quiring on its carol-tune;

I watch the golden-sickled-moon,