Her forms, and with the spirit of her forms,

He clothed the nakedness of austere truth.

While yet he lingered in the rudiments

Of science, and among her simplest laws,

His triangles—they were the stars of heaven,

The silent stars! Oft did he take delight

To measure the altitude[37] of some tall crag

That[38] is the eagle's birth-place, or some peak

Familiar with forgotten years, that shows

Inscribed upon its visionary sides,[39]