Stoop’st thou to me?” although his lips were mute,

His eyes inquired. The Shining One replied:

“Thy Book, thy birth, life of thy life am I,

Son of thy soul, thy youth’s forgotten fruit.

We two go up to judgment side by side.”


THE TORCH-RACE

Brave racer, who hast sped the living light

With throat outstretched and every nerve astrain,

Now on thy left hand labours gray-faced Pain,