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I called on dreams and visions, to disclose That which is veil'd from waking thought, conjured Eternity, as men constrain a ghost To appear and answer. .

me, burning stars of night! Where is the spirit gone, That past the reach of human sight, As a swift breeze hath flown?— And the stars answered me—"We roll   In light and power on high; But, of the never-dying soul,    Ask that which cannot die."