To An Autograph-Hunter

Seek not my name--it doth no virtue bear;
    Seek, seek thine own primeval name to find--
The name God called when thy ideal fair
    Arose in deeps of the eternal mind.

When that thou findest, thou art straight a lord
    Of time and space--art heir of all things grown;
And not my name, poor, earthly label-word,
    But I myself thenceforward am thine own.

Thou hearest not? Or hearest as a man
    Who hears the muttering of a foolish spell?
My very shadow would feel strange and wan
    In thy abode:--I say No, and Farewell.

Thou understandest? Then it is enough;
    No shadow-deputy shall mock my friend;
We walk the same path, over smooth and rough,
    To meet ere long at the unending end.