VII

Was it that when, by rarest chance, there fell

Disguise from Nature, so that Truth remained

Naked, and whoso saw for once could tell

Us others of her majesty and might

In large, her lovelinesses infinite

In little,—straight you used the power wherewith

Sense, penetrating as through rind to pith

Each object, thoroughly revealed might view

And comprehend the old things thus made new,