And as the fair one wanders over the “mighty dead,” over “warriors,” and “sons of song” and orators⁠—

“whose all persuading tongue

Had moved the nations with resistless sway,”

and “pale sons of science”⁠—

“He who wandered with me in my dream

Told me their histories as we onward went,

Till the grave shone with such a hallowed beam,

Such pleasure with their memory seem’d blent

That, when we looked to heaven, our upward eyes

With no funereal sadness mock’d the skies.”