prevails, and he sacrifices self-ease, feeling that he has a nobler mission than to dream through life, and that here he must labour ere he can earn the right to rest.

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Thus in the last scene the Spirit and the Man have become one—he is truly a Poet. His prayer maintains the direct and divine inspiration of the Poet-Priest.

Spirit

Man

The action in short is the conflict of two principles within the breast, the False and the True, ending in the extinction of error and the triumph of truth.

[Pg 1]

[Pg 1]

EIDOLON,

OR

THE COURSE OF A SOUL.

Scene. A desert Island. The sea-shore. Man.

Scene.

Man.

How lonely were I in this solitude,

This atom of creation which yon wave,

White with the fury of a thousand years,

Might gulf into oblivion, if the soul

Knew circumscription. Far as eye can reach

Around me lies a wild and watery waste,

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