Like mere rills where the sun-pillar’d Truth is enshrined

Where those broad-rolling rivers no longer may sweep

With their billows of light to the Ocean of Mind.

It was a clime where mortal form

Hath never pressed the blasted soil⁠—

Where tempest-fires and surging storm

Are struggling ever in their coil:

A sunless clime, whose dreary night

Gleams dimly with that doubtful light

Which men have seen—when Darkness threw