Thou shalt hear something to awake thy stare.’

‘Far will I follow as allowed,’ he said;

‘And if the smoke permit us not to see,

Our sense of hearing may avail instead

Of sight, and grant me to converse with thee.’

Then I began: ‘With that same fleshly frame

Which death dissolveth, I am bound above:

Here through the infernal embassy I came,

And if God so enfold me in his love

That his grace grants me to behold his court