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16 “With the vain shadow of the past, “As is Mazeppa to the last.

“We met—we gazed—I saw, and sigh’d, “She did not speak, and yet replied; “There are ten thousand tones and signs “We hear and see, but none defines— “Involuntary sparks of thought, “Which strike from out the heart o’erwrought, “And form a strange intelligence, “Alike mysterious and intense, “Which link the burning chain that binds, “Without their will, young hearts and minds; “Conveying, as the electric wire, “We know not how, the absorbing fire.— “I saw, and sigh’d—in silence wept, “And still reluctant distance kept, “Until I was made known to her, “And we might then and there confer “Without suspicion—then, even then, “I long’d, and was resolved to speak;