Through sallow slopes of upland bare,
And Fancy climbs with foot-fall still
Its narrowing curves that end in air.
Stoops softly to that topmost swell;
Its thread-like windings seem a clew
To gracious climes where all is well.
10An ampler world than clips my ken,
Where the great stars of happier skies
Commingle nobler fates of men.
Still master of my secret rare;
15Once tried, the path would end in Rome,
But now it leads me everywhere.
From former good, old overmuch;
What Nature for her poets hides,
20'Tis wiser to divine than clutch.
Within the scope of mortal ear;
My prying step would make him dumb,
And the fair tree, his shelter, sear.
Behind my inmost thought, he sings;
No feet avail; to hear it nigh,
The song itself must lend the wings.
30Those angel stairways in my brain,
That climb from these low-vaulted days
To spacious sunshines far from pain.
I leave thy covert haunt untrod,
35And envy Science not her feat
To make a twice-told tale of God.
And long ago that Pan was dead;
'Twas but that fools preferred to bore
40Earth's rind inch-deep for truth instead.
The fairies dance each full-mooned night,
Would we but doff our lenses strong,
And trust our wiser eyes' delight.
Our seeing, marvel ever new,
Glimpsed in fair weather, a sweet doubt
Sketched-in, mirage-like, on the blue.
50Whose edge allures to climb the height;
I hear thy drowned bells, inly-loud,
From still pools dusk with dreams of night.
Thy countersign of long-lost speech,—
55Those fountained courts, those chambers still,
Fronting Time's far East, who shall reach?
But trust our human heart for all;
Wonders that from the seeker fly
60Into an open sense may fall.
The password of the unwary elves;
Seek it, thou canst not bribe their spies;
Unsought, they whisper it themselves.
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