GODS 



Surprised by doubt, and longing but to know, 

 I asked of men and books what God might be: — 

 "An immanent spirit, clothed with the world we see" — 



"A King of kings, ruler of all below" — 



"Pure Love" — "A golden calf set up for show" — 

 "A jealous chief and tribal sectary" — 

 "Figment of fear and Man's servility" — 



"The final Judge that dooms to joy or woe" . . . 



I turned away; and found my God alone. 



God is the world— yet captive in our thought: 

 Our thought— when it the head of the world is grown: 



Love — with what love we to ourselves have taught. 

 The Soul must incarnate Divinity, 

 And God in each anew must builded be. 



