And then a low voice wound into his heart:

"Sordello!" (low as some old Pythoness

Conceding to a Lydian King's distress

The cause of his long error—one mistake

Of her past oracle) "Sordello, wake!

God has conceded two sights to a man—

And a man can do but a man's portion.

One, of men's whole work, time's completed plan,

The other, of the minute's work, man's first

Step to the plan's completeness: what's dispersed