Not Understood + 

Tumultuous rushing o’er the outstretched plains; + 

A wildered maze of comets and of suns; + 

The blood of changeless God that ever runs + 

With quick diastole up the immortal veins; + 

A phantom host that moves and works in chains; + 

A monstrous fiction, which, collapsing, stuns + 

The mind to stupor and amaze at once; + 

A tragedy which that man best explains + 

Who rushes blindly on his wild career + 

With trampling hoofs and sound of mailed war, + 

Who will not nurse a life to win a tear, + 

But is extinguished like a falling star;⁠— + 

Such will at times this life appear to me + 

Until I learn to read more perfectly. + 