The shattered caskets of man’s winged brain,

Whose flight hath left them empty, desolate,

Sublime in ruin on the crumbling plain.

XXIV

The perished bodies frail that once did house

His restless soul, and heard his sacred vows

To his own likeness, dressed in speech or stone,

Ere he forswore them for some fairer spouse.

XXV

He sought for Truth, and cried, “Where dost thou dwell?”