Imagination, like a shadowy giant looming on the twilight of the Hartz,
Shall overwhelm judgment with affright, and scare him from his throne:
In a dream thou mayst be mad, and feel the fire within thee;
In a dream thou mayst travel out of self, and see thee with the eyes of another;
Or sleep in thine own corpse: or wake as in many bodies;
Or swell, as expanded to infinity; or shrink, as imprisoned to a point;
Or among moss-grown ruins mayst wander with the sullen disembodied,
And gaze upon their glassy eyes until thy heart-blood freeze.
Alone must thou stand, O man! alone at the bar of judgment;
Alone must thou bear thy sentence, alone must thou answer for thy deeds: