Last came the troubled question—what am I?

A blade, a sapling of the growth of life

Wherewith the outside of the earth is covered;

A comprehensive atom, all the world

In act of thought embracing; in the world

A grain scarce filling a particular place.

Henry Taylor.

Father, I know my frame is all composed

Of elements that perish; and I know

The bondage whereunto my grovelling soul