And so, with a world-excluding accuracy—

O, never doubt that every step was true!—

Melts the great music into less than air

And misses everything.

Everything! On one side

The music soaring endlessly through heavens

Within the human soul; on the other side,

The unseen Composed of whose transcendent life

The music speaks in souls made still to hear.

He clung to his vera causa. In that law