With spirit-organs which sense-sight at first

Had shown to me in its own narrow way.

For judgment’s all-illuminating light

Irradiated this new world of mine.

But whether I lived in some shadowy dream,

Or whether spirit-truth surrounded me

Already, I could not as yet decide.

Whether my spirit-sight was really stirred

By other things, or whether mine own self

Expanded into some world of its own,