{"id":1426,"date":"2013-07-13T01:34:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:34:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:34:44","slug":"32-in-the-moonlight-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/05-collected-poems-volume-05\/32-in-the-moonlight-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-32_In the Moonlight.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<b><font size=\"4\">In the Moonlight<\/p>\n<p><\/font><br \/>\n<\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"24%\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0in;line-height:150%\"><span><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf now must pause the bullocks\u2019 jingling tune,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Here<br \/>\nlet it be beneath the dreaming trees<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Supine<br \/>\nand huge that hang upon the breeze,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Here<br \/>\nin the wide eye of the silent moon.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>How<br \/>\nliving a stillness reigns! The night\u2019s hushed rules<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>All<br \/>\nthings obey but three, the slow wind\u2019s sigh<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Among<br \/>\nthe leaves, the cricket\u2019s ceaseless cry,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nfrog\u2019s harsh discord in the ringing pools.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">Yet they but seem the silence to increase<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\ndreadful wideness of the inhuman night.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nwhole hushed world immeasurable might<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Be<br \/>\nwatching round this single spot of peace.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">So boundless is the darkness and so rife<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>With<br \/>\nthoughts of infinite reach that it creates<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>A<br \/>\ndangerous sense of space and abrogates<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nwholesome littleness of human life.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\ncommon round that each of us must tread<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Now<br \/>\nseems a thing unreal; we forget<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nheavy yoke the world on us has set,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nslave\u2019s vain labour earning tasteless bread.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Space<br \/>\nhedges us and Time our hearts o\u2019ertakes;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Our<br \/>\nbounded senses and our boundless thought<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Strive<br \/>\nthrough the centuries and are slowly brought<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Back<br \/>\nto the source whence their divergence wakes.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nsource that none have traced, since none can know<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Whether<br \/>\nfrom Heaven the eternal waters well<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Through<br \/>\nNature\u2019s matted locks, as Ganges fell,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">Or from some dismal nether darkness flow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Two<br \/>\ngenii in the dubious heart of man,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Two<br \/>\ngreat unhappy foes together bound<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Wrestle<br \/>\nand strive to win unhampered ground;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>They<br \/>\nstrive for ever since the race began.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n Page-55<\/font><\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>One<br \/>\nfrom his body like a bridge of fire<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Mounts<br \/>\nupward azure-winged with eager eyes;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>One<br \/>\nin his brain deep-mansioned labouring lies<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nclamps to earth the spirit\u2019s high desire.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Here<br \/>\nin this moonlight with strange visions rife<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>I<br \/>\nseem to see their vast peripheries<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Without<br \/>\nme in the sombre mighty trees,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And,<br \/>\nhark! their silence turns the wheels of life.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>These<br \/>\nare the middle and the first. Are they<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nlast too? Has the duel then no close?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Shall<br \/>\nneither vanquish of the eternal foes,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Nor<br \/>\neven at length this moonlight turn to day?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Our<br \/>\nage has made an idol of the brain,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nlast adored a purer presence; yet<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>In<br \/>\nAsia like a dove immaculate<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>He<br \/>\nlurks deep-brooding in the hearts of men.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>But<br \/>\nEurope comes to us bright-eyed and shrill.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>\u201cA<br \/>\nfar delusion was that mounting fire,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>An<br \/>\nimpulse baulked and an unjust desire;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>It<br \/>\nfades as we ascend the human hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>She<br \/>\ncries to us to labour in the light<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Of<br \/>\ncommon things, grow beautiful and wise<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>On<br \/>\nstrong material food, nor vex our eyes<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>With<br \/>\nstraining after visionary delight.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Ah,<br \/>\nbeautiful and wise, but to what end?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Europe<br \/>\nknows not, nor any of her schools<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Who<br \/>\nscorn the higher thought for dreams of fools;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Riches<br \/>\nand joy and power meanwhile are gained.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Gained<br \/>\nand then lost! For Death the heavy grip<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Shall<br \/>\nloosen, Death shall cloud the laughing eye,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nhe who broke the nations soon shall lie<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>More<br \/>\nhelpless than a little child asleep.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n Page-56<\/font><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nafter? Nay, for death is end and term.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>A<br \/>\nfiery dragon through the centuries curled,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>He<br \/>\nfeeds upon the glories of the world<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nthe vast mammoth dies before the worm.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Stars<br \/>\nrun their cycle and are quenched; the suns<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Born<br \/>\nfrom the night are to the night returned,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>When<br \/>\nthe cold tenebrous spaces have inurned<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nlistless phantoms of the Shining Ones.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>From<br \/>\ntwo dead worlds a burning world arose<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Of<br \/>\nwhich the late putrescent fruit is man;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>From<br \/>\nchill dark space his roll of life began<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nshall again in icy quiet close.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Our<br \/>\nlives are but a transitory breath:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Mean<br \/>\npismires in the sad and dying age<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Of<br \/>\na once glorious planet, on the edge<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Of<br \/>\nbitter pain we wait eternal death.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Watering<br \/>\nthe ages with our sweat and blood<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>We<br \/>\npant towards some vague ideal state<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nby the effort fiercer ills create,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Working<br \/>\nby lasting evil transient good.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Insults<br \/>\nand servitude we bear perforce;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>With<br \/>\nprofitable crimes our souls we rack,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Vexing<br \/>\nourselves lest earth our seed should lack<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Who<br \/>\nneeds us not in her perpetual course;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Then<br \/>\ndown into the earth descend and sleep<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>For<br \/>\never, and the lives for which we toiled<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Forget<br \/>\nus, who when they their turn have moiled,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Themselves<br \/>\nforgotten into silence creep.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Why<br \/>\nis it all, the labour and the din,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nwherefore do we plague our souls and vex<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Our<br \/>\nbodies or with doubts our days perplex?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Death<br \/>\nlevels soon the virtue with the sin.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n Page-57<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>If<br \/>\nDeath be end and close the useless strife,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Strive<br \/>\nnot at all, but take what ease you may<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nmake a golden glory of the day,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Exhaust<br \/>\nthe little honey of your life.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Fear<br \/>\nnot to take her beauty to your heart<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Whom<br \/>\nyou so utterly desire; you do<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>No<br \/>\nhurt to any, for the inner you<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>So<br \/>\ncherished is a dream that shall depart.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nwine of life is sweet; let no man stint<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>His<br \/>\nlonging or refuse one passionate hope.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Why<br \/>\nshould we cabin in such infinite scope,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Restrict<br \/>\nthe issue of such golden mint?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Society<br \/>\nforbids? It for our sakes<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Was<br \/>\nfashioned; if it seek to fence around<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Our<br \/>\njoys and pleasures in such narrow bound,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>It<br \/>\ngives us little for the much it takes.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Nor<br \/>\nneed we hearken to the gospel vain<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>That<br \/>\nbids men curb themselves to help mankind.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>We<br \/>\nlose our little chance of bliss, then blind<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nsilent lie for ever. Whose the gain?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>What<br \/>\nhelps it us if so mankind be served?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Ourselves<br \/>\nare blotted out from joy and light,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Having<br \/>\nno profit of the sunshine bright,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>While<br \/>\nothers reap the fruit our toils deserved.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>O<br \/>\nthis new god who has replaced the old!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>He<br \/>\ndies to-day, he dies to-morrow, dies<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>At<br \/>\nlast for ever, and the last sunrise<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Shall<br \/>\nhave forgotten him extinct and cold.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>But<br \/>\nvirtue to itself is joy enough?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Yet<br \/>\nif to us sin taste diviner? Why<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Should<br \/>\nwe not herd in Epicurus\u2019 sty<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Whom<br \/>\nNature made not of a Stoic stuff?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;Page-58<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>For<br \/>\nNature being all, desire must reign.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>It<br \/>\nis too sweet and strong for us to slay<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Upon<br \/>\na nameless altar, saying nay<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>To<br \/>\nhonied urgings for no purpose plain.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>A<br \/>\nstrange unreal gospel Science brings,<font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Being<br \/>\nanimals to act as angels might;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Mortals<br \/>\nwe must put forth immortal might<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nflutter in the void celestial wings.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>\u201cEphemeral<br \/>\ncreatures, for the future live,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>She<br \/>\nbids us<i>,<\/i> \u201cgather in for unborn men<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Knowledge<br \/>\nand joy, and forfeit, nor complain,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\npresent which alone is yours to give.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Man\u2019s<br \/>\nimmortality she first denies<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nthen assumes what she rejects, made blind<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>By<br \/>\nsudden knowledge, the majestic Mind<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Within<br \/>\nher smiling at her sophistries.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Not<br \/>\nso shall Truth extend her flight sublime,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Pass<br \/>\nfrom the poor beginnings she has made<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nwith the splendour of her wings displayed<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Range<br \/>\nthrough the boundaries of Space and Time.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Clamp<br \/>\nher not down to her material finds!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>She<br \/>\nshall go further. She shall not reject<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nlight within, nor shall the dialect<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Of<br \/>\nunprogressive pedants bar men\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>We<br \/>\nseek the Truth and will not pause nor fear.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Truth<br \/>\nwe will have and not the sophist\u2019s pleas;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Animals,<br \/>\nwe will take our grosser ease,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Or,<br \/>\nspirits, heaven\u2019s celestial music hear.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nintellect is not all; a guide within<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Awaits<br \/>\nour question. He it was informed<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nreason He surpasses; and unformed<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Presages<br \/>\nof His mightiness begin.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span>&nbsp;<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n Page-59<\/font><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<br \/>\nNor<br \/>\nmind submerged, nor self subliminal,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>But<br \/>\nthe great Force that makes the planets wheel<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Through<br \/>\nether and the sun in flames reveal<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>His<br \/>\ngodhead, is in us perpetual.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>That<br \/>\nForce in us is body, that is mind,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nwhat is higher than the mind is He.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>This<br \/>\nwas the secret Science could not see;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Aware<br \/>\nof death, to life her eyes were blind.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Through<br \/>\nchemistry she seeks the source of life,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Nor<br \/>\nknows the mighty laws that she has found<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Are<br \/>\nNature\u2019s bye-laws merely, meant to ground<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">A grandiose freedom<br \/>\nbuilding peace by strife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\norgan for the thing itself she takes,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nbrain for mind, the body for the soul,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Nor<br \/>\nhas she patience to explore the whole,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>But<br \/>\nlike a child a hasty period makes.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>\u201cIt<br \/>\nis enough,\u201d she says, \u201cI have explored<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nwhole of being; nothing now remains.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>But<br \/>\nto put details in and count my gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>So<br \/>\nshe deceives herself, denies her Lord.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Therefore<br \/>\nHe manifests Himself; once more<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nwonders of the secret world within<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Wrapped<br \/>\nyet with an uncertain mist begin<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>To<br \/>\nlook from that thick curtain out; the door<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Opens.<br \/>\nHer days are numbered, and not long<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Shall<br \/>\nshe be suffered to belittle thus<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Man<br \/>\nand restrain from his tempestuous<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Uprising<br \/>\nthat immortal spirit strong.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>He<br \/>\nrises now; for God has taken birth.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nrevolutions that pervade the world<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Are<br \/>\nfaint beginnings and the discus hurled<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Of<br \/>\nVishnu speeds down to enring the earth.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n Page-60<\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">The old shall perish; it<br \/>\nshall pass away,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Expunged,<br \/>\nannihilated, blotted out;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nall the iron bands that ring about<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Man\u2019s<br \/>\nwide expansion shall at last give way.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Freedom,<br \/>\nGod, Immortality, the three<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Are<br \/>\none and shall be realised at length;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Love,<br \/>\nWisdom, Justice, Joy and utter Strength<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Gather<br \/>\ninto a pure felicity.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>It<br \/>\ncomes at last, the day foreseen of old,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>What<br \/>\nJohn in Patmos saw, what Shelley dreamed,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Vision<br \/>\nand vain imagination deemed,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nCity of Delight, the Age of Gold.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nIron Age is ended. Only now<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nlast fierce spasm of the dying past<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Shall<br \/>\nshake the nations, and when that has passed,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Earth<br \/>\nwashed of ills shall raise a fairer brow.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>This<br \/>\nis man\u2019s progress; for the Iron Age<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Prepares<br \/>\nthe Age of Gold.&nbsp; What we call sin,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Is<br \/>\nbut man\u2019s leavings as from deep within<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nPilot guides him in his pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>He<br \/>\nleaves behind the ill with strife and pain,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Because<br \/>\nit clings and constantly returns,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nin the fire of suffering fiercely burns<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>More<br \/>\nsweetness to deserve, more strength to gain.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>He<br \/>\nrises to the good with Titan wings:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nthis the reason of his high unease,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Because<br \/>\nhe came from the infinities<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>To<br \/>\nbuild immortally with mortal things;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>The<br \/>\nbody with increasing soul to fill,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Extend<br \/>\nHeaven\u2019s claim upon the toiling earth<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 0.5in;margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>And<br \/>\nclimb from death to a diviner birth<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;margin-right: 0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><span>Grasped<br \/>\nand supported by immortal Will.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><span><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n Page-61<\/font><\/span><b><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"16%\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0in;line-height:150%\"><b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/b><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Moonlight &nbsp; 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