Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.