Why further will you seek?'

'Far have I come, and far must fare.

Noon and night and morning-prime,

I search the long road, bleak and bare,

That fades away in Time.

'On the world's brink its wild weeds shake,

And there my own dust, dark with dew,

Burns with a rose that, sleep or wake,

Beacons me—"Follow true!"'

'Her name, crazed soul? And her degree?