When I am very old, yon shimmering doom

Comes drawing down and down, till all things end?”

Then with a wizen smirk he proudly felt

No other mote of God had ever gained

Such giant grasp of universal truth.

One was a transcendental monad; thin

And long and slim of mind; and thus he mused:

“Oh, vast, unfathomable monad-souls!

Made in the image”—a horse frog croaks from the pool,

“Hark! ’twas some god, voicing his glorious thought