To people this eternal solitude

With fancies, and fair dreams, and summer-mirth,

Which is not now—and yet my mother earth

I would not love to lie above thee so

As Agathè lies there—Oh! no! no! no!

To have these clay worms feast upon my heart!

And all the light of being to depart

Into a dismal shadow! I could die

As the red lightnings, quenching amid sky

Their wild and wizard breath; I could away