To deepen the picture no time can efface.
“For light” at the portals of Nature we wait—
Descend to her rocks and mount up to her stars—
Her atoms diffuse and her gases collate,
Yet learn, as her secrets she slowly unbars,
How, filling, pervading, encompassing all,
Still law—mighty law—through all systems doth reign;
The world and the atom respond to its call,
The dewdrop and ocean are bound by its chain.
“For light,” above all, when our vesper has chimed,