Grappling amid the eternal verities,

Touched to it by the conflict; and seemed now

Clutching the air. A whelming sense of wrong

Flushed all my mood. As one who sees

All things, and nothing clearly, fearless of brow

I shook my answer free.

“My nobler Self!

Mine ultimate Good! Trickster with subtle speech!

What nobler self have I, what high, what low,

Contradistinguished, save what thou wouldst teach