So much the better for you; take your ease,

Look on, and laugh; style yourself God alone;

Strangle some day with a cross olive-stone!

All that is right enough: but why want us

To know that you yourself know thus and thus?)

"The world shall bow to me conceiving all

Man's life, who see its blisses, great and small,

Afar—not tasting any; no machine

To exercise my utmost will is mine:

Be mine mere consciousness! Let men perceive