No hesitation for what speck, spot, splash

Of either color's opposite, intrudes

To modify thy judgment. Well, for beans

Substitute days,—show, ranged in order, Life—

Then, tell me its true color! Time is short,

Life's days compose a span,—as brief be speech!

Black I pronounce for, like the Indian Sage,—

Black—present, past, and future, interspersed

With blanks, no doubt, which simple folk style Good

Because not Evil: no, indeed? Forsooth,