...of continuing your tone in a long straight line making the fullest possible use of your resonators. My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping...sweet singing; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside a helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing. It seems to float ever for ever,...

...to shape or master it. In "Life of Life," Asia was a mother; here she is like a fetus in die womb: My soul is an enchanted Boat Which, like a sleeping...conducting it Whilst all the winds with melody are singing. (72-77) To listen, in this song, is not only to float but also to undertake a meandering,...

...similar view: 'I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.'1* In 1820 Shelley was more ethereal: My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping...swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.1' In yoga the swan pose, hamsasana, is a stretch in which all the weight of the body finally...