Wiles in his brain he hatched; weighed what he had to say.
Procrastination served him his design to fill;
He’d secrets, one or two, the royal mind to still.
How many worlds there are that hang on wisdom’s worth.
How vast an ocean wisdom! Compasses the earth.225
A shoreless ocean is the subtle mind of man
A fearless diver sounds its depths; as who else can?
Our bodies drift about in mind’s strong eddies still,
Like basins on the water, at the stream’s sole will.
Until they fill, they float like bowls, on ocean’s brink;