Something that 's fire and more beside: mere fire

—Is it a force which, giving, knows it gives,

And wherefore, so may look for love and praise

From me, fire's like so far, however less

In all beside? Prime cause this fire shall be,

Uncaused, all-causing: hence begin the gifts,

Thither must go my love and praise—to what?

Fire? Symbol fitly serves the symbolized

Herein,—that this same object of my thanks,

While to my mind nowise conceivable