CXLVIII.

There is a dungeon, in whose dim drear light[516] What do I gaze on? Nothing--Look again! Two forms are slowly shadowed on my sight-- Two insulated phantoms of the brain:[pd] It is not so--I see them full and plain-- An old man, and a female young and fair, Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose vein The blood is nectar:--but what doth she there, With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare?[pe]