That gave him thus immortally to glide

Over her moist dominions, on him pour

More than the spell unearthly things to view,

But the glad gush of spiritual feelings too;

For then the poet deem’d that one such hour

Of brief enchanted happiness, were worth

A thousand years of feelings but of earth.

The spirit now lent him her aid to see

Things that, to us, must lie in mystery;

Visions unborn of time, which future years