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 Passing through realms of star and cloud,

Scaling the mountains of the moon,

My soul ascends, my body bowed

O'er her fair form in seeming swoon,

Unstrung by Love's almighty tune,

Reels far below; sensations crowd

Upon sensations, like the waves

Follow waves shorewards, so they beat

Upon my being; each one paves

The way for its successor's feet

To follow faster, till with heat

Made faint, they trip among the graves

Of former joys; confused they fall

Dead 'mid dead ashes scattered there.

Earthbound once more, and stripped of all

Illusions, through the breathless air

My soul sinks slowly back, aware

Of waiting Sleep's incorporate pall. Rh