That Ovid sang—the dust that rose to a stem,

The stem that changed to a leaf, the crowning leaf

That changed to a fruitful flower; and, under all,

Sustaining, moving, binding all in one,

One Power that like a Master-Dramatist,

Through every act and atom of the world

Advanced the triumph that must crown the

whole. Unseen by man—that drama—here on earth

It must be; but could man survey the whole,

As even now, in flashes, he discerns