Nowhere! 'T was put forth and withdrawn, perplexed

At touch of what seemed stable and proved stuff

Such as the colored clouds are: plain enough

There lay the outside universe: try Man—

My most immediate! and the dip began

From safe and solid into that profound

Of ignorance I tell you surges round

My rock-spit of self-knowledge. Well and ill,

Evil and good irreconcilable

Above, beneath, about my every side,—