IDEAL PASSION
171
XXVII
And they, the Ionians, whose first-born minds
Ethereal bore the intellectual ray
Of knowledge through this realm of night and day,
Where the apparent the true motion blinds,
And change forever into new change winds
And melts in the great world's creative play,—
What power was theirs nature to disarray,
What sight that in the seen the unseen finds!
Creation hath a double garniture,
Twice woven of invisibility;
Beauty and truth shall one another lure,
And each to other aye resolvèd be;
So forms divine shall this sad light endure,
And thought transcend the sphere perpetually.
