Yea of the eternal, vital glow that throbs

Within humanity's deep-rubied heart.

So runs the myth, dear Aratea.

Ara. Ah!

How runs the rubric of thy thought that sets

The symbol plain? Read that to me, I pray thee.

Aris. The lonely mind may not uprafter stars,

And vain, adventurous man who of himself

Createth Heaven must see it fall. Then doth

The woman spirit, girdle of the worlds,