Of the dim world, whose radiance clear doth show

Its awful beauty; and, through the wide gloom,

Make all its obscure mystic symbols glow

With pleasing light,—that we may see and know

The glorious world, and all its wondrous scheme;

Not as distorted in the mind below,

Nor in philosopher's, nor poet's dream,

But as it was, and is, high in the Mind Supreme.—Anon.

Chapter I.