“They speak truly enough

Of all that they can know,” the Master said.

“Change is the rhythm that draws this world along.

They see the change. Its law they cannot see.

But man who is mortal in this body of earth

Has also a part, by virtue of his reason,

In an enduring realm. Their prophet knew

And heard what sophists have no souls to hear,—

The Harmony that includes the pulse of change;

The divine Reason, past the flux of things;