Mountain or streamlet were my dwelling-place

Before I gained enlargement, grew mollusc?

As well account that way for many a thrill

Of kinship, I confess to, with the powers

Called Nature: animate, inanimate,

In parts or in the whole, there 's something there

Man-like that somehow meets the man in me.

My pulse goes altogether with the heart

O' the Persian, that old Xerxes, when he stayed

His march to conquest of the world, a day