All the diverse work, old yet ever new,

Divide us, each from other, me from you,—

Why, where 's the need of Temple, when the walls

O' the world are that? What use of swells and falls

From Levites' choir, Priests' cries, and trumpet-calls?

That one Face, far from vanish, rather grows,

Or decomposes but to recompose,

Become my universe that feels and knows!


THE RING AND THE BOOK