wealth, station, vagabondage; the preacher's sacred learning and august
ambition; fancies of dawning reason; hopes of intellect matured; memories
of existence wrecked; household sorrows; untold regrets; elegy and epic
in low, close, human sighs, to which Poetry never yet gave voice: all for
the moment personified there before you,--a glimpse for the guess, no
more. Lower and lower falls the curtain! All is blank!