'Twixt good and evil ends, strange thoughts intrude

Though good be garnered safely, and good's foe

Bundled for burning. Thoughts steal: 'Even so—

Why grant tares leave to thus o'ertop, o'ertower

Their field-mate, boast the stalk and flaunt the flower,

Triumph one sunny minute? Knowledge, power,

And will thus worked?' Man's fancy makes the fault!

Man, with the narrow mind, must cram inside

His finite God's infinitude,—earth's vault

He bids comprise the heavenly far and wide,