For day to break, it wants the rise of God’s sunlight.

Behold a sun for thee, in mote contained and hid;

A rampant lion, clad in pelt of gentlest kid.

Behold a hidden sea, beneath a blade of grass.

Beware! Tread not thereon in doubt. Thou sink’st, alas!260

Doubt and incertitude, when felt in pious breast,

Are mercies from on high; a leader gives them rest.

A prophet ’s sole and solitary in the world.

Sole; but within him bears a thousand systems furled.

As though by magic, the vast universe he makes