What Is There In Thee,

What Is There In Thee, Moon! That Thou Should'st Move My Heart So Potently?

Was It A Vision Or A Waking Dream? Fled Is That Music--do I Wake Or Sleep?

An Extensive Knowledge Is Needful To Thinking People-it Takes Away The Heat And Fever; And Helps, By Widening Speculation, To Ease The Burden Of The Mystery.

With A Great Poet The Sense Of Beauty Overcomes Every Other Consideration, Or Rather Obliterates All Consideration.

Thou, Silent Form, Dost Tease Us Out Of Thought As Doth Eternity.