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Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud / Upon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!
I look into the chasms, and a shroud / Vaporous doth hide them, -- just so much wist / Mankind do know of hell; I look o'erhead, / And there is sullen mist, -- even so much / Mankind can tell of heaven; mist is spread / Before the earth, beneath me, -- even such, / Even so vague is man's sight of himself!
Here are the craggy stones beneath my feet, --
Thus much I know that, a poor witless elf, / I tread on them, -- that all my eye doth meet / Is mist and crag, not only on this height, / But in the world of thought and mental might!