***One million times ocean must ebb and flow, And he oppressed. Yet he shall not die, These things accomplish’d: - If he utterly Scans all the depths of magic, and expounds The meanings of all motions, shapes, and sounds; If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
Moreover, and in chief, He must pursue this task of joy and grief Most piously; - all lovers tempest-tost, And in the savage overwhelming lost, He shall deposit side by side, until Time’s creeping shall the dreary space fulfil: Which done, and all these labours ripened, A youth, by heavenly power lov’d and led, Shall stand before him; whom he shall direct How to consummate all. The youth elect Must do the thing, or both will be destroy’d.*
— John Keats**
34. Endymion. Keats, John. 1884. The Poetical Works of John Keats