Incipit

Astrophobos Ward Phillips In the midnight heavens burning Through ethereal deeps afar, Once I watch’d with restless yearning An alluring, aureate star; Ev’ry eve aloft returning, Gleaming nigh the Arctic car. Mystic waves of beauty blended With the gorgeous golden rays; Phantasies of bliss descended In a myrrh’d Elysian haze; And in lyre-born chords extended Harmonies of Lydian lays. There (thought I) lie scones of pleasure, Where the free and blessed dwell, And each moment bears a treasure, Freighted with the lotus-spell, And there floats a liquid measure From the lute of I …

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