"Dark, dark, yea, 'irrecoverably dark,'

Is the soul's eye; yet how it strives and battles

Thorough th' impenetrable gloom to fix

That master light, the secret truth of things,

Which is the body of the infinite God!"

"Sure, we are leaves of one harmonious bower,

Fed by a sap that never will be scant,

All-permeating, all-producing mind;

And in our several parcellings of doom

We but fulfil the beauty of the whole,