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All Nature's mirrored in the poet's eye,
Wherein the pageant of the Universe
Reflects itself in all its wondrous beauty,
That he may set forth its sublimity,
The unity beneath its transmutations,
And shew his less imaginative fellows
Something of that great vision he beholds.
He gazes steadily at all things human,
Ever intent to find the harmony
Which underlies life's many seeming discords.
He is an alchemist whose art indeed
Transmutes base metal into shining gold,
And in his brain's laboratory turns
Thought's star-dust into worlds of light and splendour.
He works more transformations than the gods
Of Greece were feigned in fable to accomplish:
From common things he lifts the veil which hides
Their inner mystery from the eyes of men,
And everywhere reveals the infinite.
'Tis he alone through whom the immanent spirit
That all creation vivifies and sustains
Proclaims its oracles of deepest wisdom.
Wherein the pageant of the Universe
Reflects itself in all its wondrous beauty,
That he may set forth its sublimity,
The unity beneath its transmutations,
And shew his less imaginative fellows
Something of that great vision he beholds.
He gazes steadily at all things human,
Ever intent to find the harmony
Which underlies life's many seeming discords.
He is an alchemist whose art indeed
Transmutes base metal into shining gold,
And in his brain's laboratory turns
Thought's star-dust into worlds of light and splendour.
He works more transformations than the gods
Of Greece were feigned in fable to accomplish:
From common things he lifts the veil which hides
Their inner mystery from the eyes of men,
And everywhere reveals the infinite.
'Tis he alone through whom the immanent spirit
That all creation vivifies and sustains
Proclaims its oracles of deepest wisdom.
1901
