“‘Let my Lamp, at midnight hour,
Be seen in some high lonely Tower,
Where I may oft outwatch the Bear,
With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphear
The spirit of Plato, to unfold
What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold
The immortal mind that hath forsook
Her mansion in this fleshly nook ;
_ And of those Dzemons that are found
In fire, air, flood, or under ground,
Whose power hath a true content
With Planet, or with Element.
Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy
In Sceptr'd Pall come sweeping by.”
Il Penseroso.