XVIII.

The forms of the grim Knight and pictured Saint

Look living in the moon; and as you turn

Backward and forward to the echoes faint

Of your own footsteps—voices from the Urn

Appear to wake, and shadows wild and quaint

Start from the frames which fence their aspects stern,

As if to ask how you can dare to keep

A vigil there, where all but Death should sleep.

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