If Me thou’dst seek, there look for Me, with might and main!”[309]
His words were: “Seek within My servants. There thou’lt meet
The paradise of My aspect. Thou most discreet!”[310]
The heaven of heavens, with all its wondrous wide extent,
At sight of Adam’s glory into tremors went.415
The marvellous expanse of heaven’s a stretch extreme.
But what is matter, all, when spirit is the theme!
Each angel made remark: “Until this very hour
I had a certain knowledge of the wide earth’s bower.
Much duty I’ve performed upon its soil, down there.