text:  While he waits for the _afflatus divinus_ and consults the muses--and in fact his eyes soon begin to betray _possession_--he passes his hand over his parturient forehead while the _os magno sonaturum_ is getting ready; the labour-pains are evidently on him; he hurls back his hair and fixes his eyes upon the moon (who has been looking at _him_ for several minutes through the window opposite