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When I have
fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has
gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in
charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened
grain;
When I behold upon the night's starred face
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that
I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the
magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature
of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting
love! -then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand
alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness
do sink.
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