GOD AND MAN 



The world of things entered your infant mind 



To populate that crystal cabinet. 



Within its walls the strangest partners met, 

 And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind. 



For, once within, corporeal fact could find 

 A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt 

 Built there your little microcosm— which yet 



Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned. 



Dead men can live there, and converse with stars: 

 Equator speaks with Pole, and Night with Day: 



Spirit dissolves the world's material bars — 

 A million isolations burn away. 



The Universe can live and work and plan, 



At last made God within the mind of man. 



