• Thou, sibyl rapt! whose sympathetic soul
    Infused the myst’ries thy tongue failed to tell;
    Though from thy lips the marvellous accents fell,
    And weird wise meanings o’er the senses stole,
    Through those rare cadences, with winsome spell;
    Yet even in such refrainings of thy voice
    There struggled up a wailing undertone,
    That spoke thee victim...