This soul hath not been able hitherto
To recognize itself in spirit-light
That through sense-revelation is outpoured,
To show the meaning of all earthly growth.
It saw God’s spirit stripped of nature’s guise,
And Nature’s self estranged from deity.
And so through many lives it had to pass
And stay a stranger to the sense of life;
It could but find alone such carnal tenements
To carry out its individual work