Yes, yes, I feel it; it is here the seed,

Here in my head; but, O thou Power unseen,

In whom we live and move and have our being,

Let it not perish; grant, unlost, unhurt,

In long transmission, this rich atom some day,

In some posterity of distant years—

How many thou intendest to have I know not—

In some matured and procreant human brain,

May germinate, burst, and rise into a tree.

No; I shall not tell Eve.