XLIV.

May this be sleep, this hush?--A sleepless eye Doth hold its vigil midst that dusky race! One that would scan th’ abyss of destiny E’en now is gazing on the skies to trace, In those bright worlds, the burning isles of space, Fate’s mystic pathway: they the while, serene, Walk in their beauty; but Mohammed’s face Kindles beneath their aspect,[213] and his mien, All fired with stormy joy, by that soft light is seen.