44.
Mankind are Gods in embryo, and Gods
Are wedded Pairs advanced to higher life;
All are one substance, and the seeming odds
Are in conditions; he who patient plods
Through this dull sphere of ever-active strife,
Where hope and doubt a balance keep with fears,
Will one day join his true allotted wife,
And they together rise, as blend their spheres,
To God's estate and its unfolding lapse of years.