I can be lost to all the world of sense

And follow colour-wonders with mine eye

And watch creative energies at work,

If I am left with mine own soul alone.

Whate’er may thus befall me I am not

Thereby impelled to my creative art.

But if I follow thee to cosmic heights,

And in warm rapture live again what thou

Already hast in spirit there beheld,

Then in my spirit-sight I feel a fire