To an Autograph-Hunter + 

Seek not my name⁠—it doth no virtue bear; + 

Seek, seek thine own primeval name to find⁠— + 

The name God called when thy ideal fair + 

Arose in deeps of the eternal mind. + 

When that thou findest, thou art straight a lord + 

Of time and space⁠—art heir of all things grown; + 

And not my name, poor, earthly label-word, + 

But I myself thenceforward am thine own. + 

Thou hearest not? Or hearest as a man + 

Who hears the muttering of a foolish spell? + 

My very shadow would feel strange and wan + 

In thy abode:⁠—I say “No,” and “Farewell.” + 

Thou understandest? Then it is enough; + 

No shadow-deputy shall mock my friend; + 

We walk the same path, over smooth and rough, + 

To meet ere long at the unending end. + 