•     mute, sightless visitant,
        From what uncharted world
    Hast voyaged into Life’s rude sea,
          With guidance scant;
    As if some bark mysteriously
    Should hither glide, with spars aslant
          And sails all furled!

        In what perpetual dawn,
        Child of the spotless brow,
    Hast kept thy spirit far withdrawn—...