Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie

Thy soul’s immensity;

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep

Thy heritage; thou eye among the blind,

That, deaf and silent, read’st the eternal deep,

Haunted for ever by the eternal mind—

Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!

On whom those truths do rest,

Which we are toiling all our lives to find;

Thou, over whom thy immortality