- Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
- Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
- Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
- Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
- How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise?
- Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
- To seek for treasure in the jeweled skies,
- Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
- Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
- And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
- To seek a shelter in some happier star?
- Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
- The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
- The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?