One by one at all honest forms of life,

At reason, order, decency and use,

To cramp him and get foothold by at least;

And still they disengage them from his clutch.


"And thus I see him slowly and surely edged

Off all the table-land whence life upsprings

Aspiring to be immortality."

There he loses him in the loneliness, silence and dusk—

"At the horizontal line, creation's verge.