Of simple dew at work to save itself amid

The unwatery force around; protected thus, dew slid

Safe through all opposites, impatient to absorb

Its spot of life, and last forever in the orb

We, now, from hand to hand pass with impunity.

CIII

And the delight wherewith I watch this crowd must be

Akin to that which crowns the chemist when he winds

Thread up and up, till clue be fairly clutched, —unbinds

The composite, ties fast the simple to its mate,