Our senses these alone can comprehend, and pause.

Beyond our senses lies the world of unity.

Desirest thou unity? Beyond thy senses fly!

Divine command, “Be!” was one act; two-lettered word;

Of grave import, though short, sprung from all being’s Lord.90

But leave we this, and turn to see how fares it now,

With our acquaintances, wolf, fox, and lion;—trow.

The lordly lion ’d torn poor wolf’s head from his tail,

That so two heads there might not be for one avail.

“On them We vengeance took”[336] ’s a well-known sacred text;