The falsity, beside, is fleeting: I can stand

Still, and let truth come back,—your steadying touch of hand

Assists me to remain self-centred, fixed amid

All on the move. Believe in me, at once you bid

Myself believe that, since one soul has disengaged

Mine from the shows of things, so much is fact: I waged

No foolish warfare, then, with shades, myself a shade,

Here in the world—may hope my pains will be repaid!

How false things are, I judge: how changeable, I learn:

When, where, and how it is I shall see truth return,