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VII. :::O Spirit! through the sense By which thy inner nature was apprised
 * Of outward shews, vague dreams have rolled,
 * And varied reminiscences have waked
 * Tablets that never fade;
 * All things have been imprinted there,
 * The stars, the sea, the earth, the sky,
 * Even the unshapeliest lineaments
 * Of wild and fleeting visions
 * Have left a record there
 * To testify of earth.

These are my empire, for to me is given The wonders of the human world to keep, And fancy's thin creations to endow With manner, being, and reality; Therefore a wondrous phantom, from the dreams Of human errors dense and purblind faith, I will evoke, to meet thy questioning.
 * Ahasuerus, rise!


 * A strange and woe-worn wight
 * Arose beside the battlement,
 * And stood unmoving there.

His inessential figure cast no shade
 * Upon the golden floor;

His port and mien bore mark of many years, And chronicles of untold ancientness Were legible within his beamless eye:
 * Yet his cheek bore the mark of youth;

Freshness and vigour knit his manly frame;