Fight if it please her; bid the world keep still!

See that her vassals nowhere suffer wrong;

—Make Pride her Right; be Valiant, and be Strong!”

Death, and her brother, Sleep, rule side by side

Realms that shadowy boundaries divide,

Yet none can cross but through gates twain; and these

Are in the charge of Death, who keeps the keys.

Now and again a Spirit will repair

For love or hate back to the upper air,

To commune with Spirit, so far as whole