Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?—

In these lines Montgomery frames poetic inspiration as a kind of spiritual visitation: moments that feel like a “birth” into immortality, arriving from a “purer sphere” beyond ordinary experience. He stresses the inadequacy of language to contain such revelations, implying that the highest truths are apprehended inwardly rather than stated. The “mind attuned / To heaven” suggests a moral or devotional preparation that enables imagination to transform dreams into coherent “worlds”—art as a creative echo of divine creation. The passage thus elevates the poet’s imaginative faculty while also subordinating it to a transcendent source, aligning aesthetic ecstasy with religious aspiration.