Ruefully seized, and shedding bitter tears,

And through that conflict seeking rest—of you,

High-titled Powers, am I constrained to ask,

Here standing, with the unvoyageable sky

In faint reflection of infinitude

Stretched overhead, and at my pensive feet

A subterraneous magazine of bones,

In whose dark vaults my own shall soon be laid,

Where are your triumphs? your dominion where?

And in what age admitted and confirmed?