The true gigantic drama of those hours

Among the quiet hills as, one by one,

His facts fell into place; their broken edges

Joined, like the fragments of a vast mosaic,

And, slowly, the new picture of the world,

Emerging in majestic pageantry

Out of the primal dark, before him grew;

Grew by its own inevitable law;

Grew, and earth’s ancient fantasies dwindled down;

The stately fabric of the old creation