And wait the hour which is approaching fast,

When triple light shall stream upon mine eyes,

And heaven itself be opened up at last

To him who dared foretell its mysteries.

I have had visions in this drear eclipse

Of outward consciousness, and clomb the skies,

Striving to utter with my earthly lips

What the diviner soul had half divined,

Even as the Saint in his Apocalypse

Who saw the inmost glory, where enshrined