When all that is, so is and so must be?

Best being best now, change were for the worse.

Accordingly discard these qualities

Proper to imperfection, take for type

Mere fire, eject the man, retain the orb,—

The perfect and, so, inconceivable,—

And what remains to love and praise? A stone

Fair-colored proves a solace to my eye,

Rolled by my tongue brings moisture curing drouth,

And struck by steel emits a useful spark: