And maddened in that vision, are exprest

All that ideal beauty ever blest

The mind with, in its most unearthly mood,

When each conception was a heavenly guest,

A ray of immortality, and stood

Star like, around, until they gathered to a God!

"And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven

The fire which we endure, it was repaid

By him to whom the energy was given,

Which this poetic marble hath arrayed