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 Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
 * When a new planet swims into his ken;

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
 * He stared at the Pacific—and all his men

Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
 * Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

 

 

Hermes once took to his feathers light,
 * When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon'd and slept,

So on a Delphic reed, my-idle spright,
 * So play'd, so charm'd, so conquer'd, so bereft 