• Writ here was the World's h History by his hand
• Whose steps knew all the earth, but whose old albeit his world
• In these few piteous cubits then was furl'd.
• Here daily, hourly, have his proud feet spann'd
• This smaller speck than the receding land
• Had ever shown his ships; what while time he hurl'd
• Abroad to strange o'er new - ? found regions spiced & pearl'd
• His spirits free country's high dominion & command

• Here dwelt two spheres. The vast terrestrial zone
• 10His spirit traversed, & that spirit was
• Itself the zone through celestial, round whose birth
• The planets played within the zodiac's girth
• Until Till, through an unjust death unfeared, did pass
• That spirit to the only land unknown

Dante Gabriel Rossetti