“Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!”

—  John Dryden

Aeneis, Book VI, lines 374–377.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

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