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All Nature's mirrored in the poet's eye,Wherein the pageant of the UniverseReflects itself in all its wondrous beauty,That he may set forth its sublimity,The unity beneath its transmutations,And shew his less imaginative fellowsSomething of that great vision he beholds.He gazes steadily at all things human,Ever intent to find the harmonyWhich underlies life's many seeming discords.He is an alchemist whose art indeedTransmutes base metal into shining gold,And in his brain's laboratory turnsThought'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
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