So will it be with truth that, for the nonce,

Styles itself truth perennial: 'ware its wile!

Knowledge turns nescience,—foremost on the file,

Simply proves first of our delusions."

XIII

Now—

Blare it forth, bold C major! Lift thy brow,

Man, the immortal, that wast never fooled

With gifts no gifts at all, nor ridiculed—

Man knowing—he who nothing knew! As Hope,