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*' 'Tis all delasion : Heaven and earth and skies. 



But air-woTe images of lifeless dyes. 

 " He only Htcs — Sole Being — None beside — 

 " The Self-existing, Self-beati(ied : 

 " ATI else but M'akes at .Maya's* fairy call; 

 "' For All that is, is not ; or God is All. 

 ••' Stupendous Essence! obvious, yet unknown; 

 *■' For ever multiplied, forever One. 

 *' I feel thee not, yet touch on every side ; 

 *' See not, yet follow where thy footsteps guide ; 

 " Hear not thy voice, yet own its mystic pov/er 

 *' In breathing silence of the midnight hour. 

 " Oh, what art thou ? since all this bursting scene, 

 " Unnuniber'd isles, and countless waves between ; 

 '•' This fabric huge, on floating pillars rals'd, 

 " With suns and fiery elements emblaz'd ; 

 " And thy own pcdma t, roseate flower of light, 

 " Emblem and cradle of Creative Might; 

 "Live only on thy sleepless eye reclin'd, 

 ** Embosom'd deep in the abyss of Mind. 

 " Close but th' all-seeing Mind, no splendor bums ; 

 *' Unfold, and all the Universe returns. 

 *' Oh, what art thou. ^ and what this darkling ray, 

 " Whose sadden'd lustre mourns in shrines of clay ? 

 *' Sprung from thyself, though quench'd in human framt, 

 •■ *' Faint emanation of th' Eternal Flame. 



" Oh, fade these scenes, w here phantom beauty glows, 

 •' And bid th' uncumber'd soul on Thee repose; 

 " Expanse how dread, immeasurable height, 

 *' Depth fathomless, and prospect inlinite.'' 



\ et whence this progress of the Sage's mind, 

 Beyond the bounds by Nature's hand assiga'd ? 

 Whence, ever} form of vulgar sense o'ertiiro\vn, 

 Soars the rapt thought, and rests on God alone ? 



Perhaps, by smooth gradations, to (his end 

 All systems of belief unconscious tend, 

 That teach the infinite of nature swarms 

 With Gods subordinate, through endless forms, 

 And every object, useful, bright, malign. 

 Of some peculiar is the care or shrine. 

 Ask the poor Hindoo if material things 

 Exist : he answers, Their existence springs 

 X'rom Mind within, that prompts, protects, provides, 

 And moulds their beauties, or their terrors guides. 



!' * Maya, or Delusion; supposed to be a Goddess sprung from Brahma.' 



t Pt'(/wo, the sacred name of tlie /oios ; ;m object of supreme venetutioa in aU 

 the mythological systems of the East, especially in that of the Hiudds. 



