In doubt and great perplexity,

A little before moon-rise hears the low

Moan of an unknown sea;

"And knows not if it be thunder or a sound

Of stones thrown down, or one deep cry

Of great wild beasts; then thinketh, 'I have found

A new land, but I die.'"

"Not for this," says the same reflective poet—

"Not for this

Was common clay ta'en from the common earth,