A Vision... I lost the love, of heaven above; I spurn'd the lust, of earth below; I felt the sweet of fancied love,--- And hell itself my only foe.

I lost earths joys, but felt the glow,
Of heaven's flame abound in me:
'Till loveliness, and I did grow,
The bard of immortality.

L loved, but woman fell away;
I hid me, from her faded fame:
I snatch'd the sun's eternal ray,-
And wrote 'till earth was but a name.

In every language upon earth,
On every shore, o'er every sea;
I gave my name immortal birth,
And kep't my spirit with the free.