Myself my own experiment, yet still

I, or a something that is I indeed,

A living, central, and more inmost I,

Within the scales of mere exterior me’s,

I,—seem eternal, O thou God, as Thou;

Have knowledge of the evil and the good,

Superior in a higher good to both.

Well, well, well! it has gone from me, though still

Its images remain upon me whole;

And undisplaced upon my mind I view