Thridded and so thrown fast the facts else free,

As right through ring and ring runs the djereed

And binds the loose, one bar without a break.

I fused my live soul and that inert stuff,

Before attempting smithcraft, on the night

After the day when—truth thus grasped and gained—

The book was shut and done with and laid by

On the cream-colored massive agate, broad

'Neath the twin cherubs in the tarnished frame

O' the mirror, tall thence to the ceiling-top.