Not there diminutive, but through a scale

Of vision less and less distinct, descending

To gloom imperishable. So (if truths 110

The highest condescend to be set forth

By processes minute), even so—when thought

Wins help from something greater than herself—

Is the firm basis of habitual sense

Supplanted, not for treacherous vacancy 115

And blank dissociation from a world

We love, but that the residues of flesh,