22.
Nor can we farther backward go than this,
Our earthly plane, which emanates as waste
From the God-Pair, while every atom is
Instinct with all that an analysis
Could find in highest forms of what is chaste;
Though seeming void, chaotic, without trend,
As water seeks its level in its haste
To be at rest, so these rude atoms tend
To reproduce the human form—their aim and end.