What if the Cause, whereof we now descry

So far the wonder-working, lack at last

Will, power, benevolence—a protoplast,

No consummator, sealing up the sum

Of all things,—past and present and to come—

Perfection? No, I have no doubt at all!

There's my amount of knowledge—great or small,

Sufficient for my needs: for see! advance

Its light now on that depth of ignorance

I shrank before from—yonder where the world