And the great child, in dreaming grown to man,

Losing his dream to piece it up began;

Then Plato in me said,

‘’Tis but the figured ceiling overhead,

With cunning diagrams bestarred, that shine

In all the three dimensions, are endowed

With motion too by skill mechanical,

That thou in height, and depth, and breadth, and power,

Schooled unto pure Mathesis, might proceed

To higher entities, whereof in us