Our hearts with it and know that they who hate

And strike become by their own blow the stricken!”...

“A stranger might be God,” the Hindus cry.

But Celia says, importunate:

“Everyone must be God and you and I.”

VIII

Almost the body leads the laggard soul; bidding it see

The beauty of surrender, the tranquillity

Of fusion with the earth. The body turns to dust

Not only by a sudden whelming thrust,