The tireless and eternal Heart poured forth

Its myriad human faces, grave or glad,

On the old course of toil (a choral hymn

From the lips of Life) each face a testimony

Of some prefiguring love. O the delight,

The incredible bounty and sustaining will

Of passionate longing, peopling all the earth—

And the joy of man and woman! The laughing boys!

The milkman clanking along in his cart, and there

Two bonneted old women, and there a thief,