Finite was I created. The Infinite strikes me dumb.

O changeless earth! O changeful world! I will arise!

Here stands the immutable Is. Yonder the Might Be lies.

What Is I cannot achieve, what Might Be perhaps I can

If but to my finite powers the Infinite give the nod:

All's possible here to God, all's possible there to Man,

And I was born in the city, I am Man, I am not God.


THE MAID'S IDYLL