Preserving its own special stamp undefaced;

Is itself, is itself, both in sport and in strife,

Itself, as it was at his primal: Be!

[Puts on his eye-glasses.

A toad. In the middle of a sandstone block.

Petrifaction all around him. His head alone peering.

There he’s sitting and gazing as though through a window

At the world, and is—to himself enough.—

[Reflectively.

Enough? To himself——? Where is it that’s written?