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    XII . No more ; np more ; he was beheld no mon >; But as he came , departed 5 why , or where , None knew : and vainly of two messengers Who bore away hi * books of antique lore , Of their Old Guest the anxious Cottagers Sought after-tidings—they would none declare : And in that Village still hia memory I * link'd with dreamy tales of awe-struck phantasy .

    XIV . 44 , that no Substance were ! 'Tis agony " When thus our thoughts go underground and nee . 44 Our poor friends there ! The unappliant starkness :

    "The dismal silence , and the utter darkness ; M The vacant palace of the regal eye , " And Hrah and feature whose dear colours be , t ( And form , all quench'd and crushed !—The demon , Fancy , 14 In commune with the Dead , works hideous necromancy ;

    XIII . 'Tis said , a Volume in the world is hidden Which bears the impress of that Old Man ' s min < 3 , And which in aftertime may be unveil'd ; And in its dealings with high things forbidden , At whose mere name the human blood hath paled , Be as a guiding hand to lead the blind . The only eye which yet hath glanced at it , Saw these thought-fixing strains in the deep Volume writ : <«*

    XV . "And conjures up great woe , and infinite terror ; " And awful loathing of the flesh we bear , •* Dark ' ning the sunlight of the spirit sublime " And rived but by its lightning ! — Glorious Mirror ! ft Wbere Shadow of that Substance is the mime ; ' Thine is an Universe of less despair * ' Than this so terrible Vast which men call Real , " When with their ignorant mocks they scuff the Pure Ideal .

    XVI . " In thee there are dread deaths ; but thy dim graves 44 i \ re void , and with no loathsome wrecks of glory ; " And flittings back to ua , and resurrections , " Come from thine awful depths ; tho' transitory , M Imbued with grace eternal , and reflections " Of living light 1—O , Substance ! all thy * laves , « That noock us with ephemeral prercnee * , " Would be as nothing , in their vain degrees , " But for their soul-impress'd , indelible Images T

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/23/