[God.]
1.
Of all that is incomprehensible
The name—in English language known as God,
The Force of which all forms and things are full—
The Source of Being—otherwise were null
All things that now exist—at whose great nod
The Universes come to light—whose will
Omnipotent rules with Discretion's rod
Of Love and Mercy, Equity and Skill:—
Thou art my theme—into my brain thy light instill!
2.
Others have speculated on this theme;
Then why not I, who feel impelled to try
My feeble power upon the waking dream
Of all the ages? Though presumptuous seem
My efforts, there can be no reason why
The least may not divulge the thoughts that rise
Within the soul so eager to descry,
As wide it opes its ever-straining eyes,
The visions that might daze the more profoundly wise.
3.
Throughout all animated nature we
Behold the presence and the power of Sex;
From Man to lowest forms of Life we see
All things are joined together sexually
For Reproduction; simple or complex,
'Tis Evolution's ever-acting law;
We trace through brutal matter the reflex
Of this all-potent force, and view with awe
The deep conclusions which from it we're forced to draw.
4.
Female and Male all things at last appear;
Thus Sex thro'out all Nature's realms controls;
From lowest upward to the highest sphere,
So far as mortal eye beholdeth here,
Through Sex conjunction everything unfolds;
As positive and negative, when met
In union chemical, the union holds
True to proportions which the law hath set
For simples, and they thus new elements beget.