So seemed Sordello's closing-truth evolved

By his flesh-half's break up; the sudden swell

Of his expanding soul showed Ill and Well,

Sorrow and Joy, Beauty and Ugliness,

Virtue and Vice, the Larger and the Less,

All qualities, in fine, recorded here,

Might be but modes of Time and this one sphere,

Urgent on these, but not of force to bind

Eternity, as Time—as Matter—Mind,

If Mind, Eternity, should choose assert