He has seen the old Welsh bards on Snowdon,he has seen the beautifullest, the strongest, and the ugliest man, left alone from the massacre of the Britons by the Romans, and has painted them from memory (I have seen his paintings), and asserts them to be as good as the figures of Raphael and Angelo, but not better, as they had precisely the same retro-visions and prophetic visions with themself

Upon the Monday following Stella stood for the first time in a fierce white glare that dazzled her and so shut off partially her vision of the rows and rows of faces.

Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy; Till the dilating soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passingthere, As in her natural form, swelled vast to heaven.

But a house most dim and rusty, And a street most dry and dusty; Seldom here more happy vision Than water-cart's blest apparition, We'll shut out the staring space, Draw the curtains in its face.

It was that of Mrs. Clayton, in her bed-gown and swathed in flannel, peering, peeping, listening at the door of her chamber, as unlovely a vision, certainly, as ever broke up an entretien or dissolved a delusion.

For a moment I had snatched at it and shown my joy, and then it had utterly disappearedthe vision, the fancy, the anticipations, the plans, the vine-covered home in the air, all were destroyed as completely as if it had been the tire of my bicycle scattered about in little bits upon the ground.

To vision astrally, the trained occultist merely shifts his sensory mechanism from physical to astral, or vice versa, just as the typewriter operator shifts from the small-letter type to the capitals, by simply touching the shift-key of his machine.

Given up to Envy, (for in every thought, The thorns, the venom, and the vision wrought).