And as in Orion the old king-astronomer, —
                                                                ­        says his Mistress
Rigel, or Betelguese, — the Earth's four quarters
                          showing four points of stars afar;                
so, seem they
to terrestrial eyes, that broadly
                                      sweep the upper
                             & lower
spheres as seen by the sun,                          by influence divine,
wheels through the Ecliptic;                           threading Cancer,
Leo, Pisces, and Aquarius; so,
by some mystic impulse am I moved,
to this fleet's progress                         through the groups
                            of swirling white-reefed                Metazones