So ’tis with man, what time his better self
Sinks into spirit-sleep and strong desire
Is all his being’s food; until again
True spirit-nature wakes in glowing light.
Such is the sleep all human beings sleep
Before clairvoyant powers have wakened them.
They know not they are sleeping, though awake;
They seem awake, because they ever sleep.
The seer doth sleep, when to this waking state
He struggles forth from out his real self.