A moody child and wildly wise 



Pursued the game with joyful eyes 



Which chose, like meteors, their way, 



And rived the dark with private ray : 



They overleapt the horizon's edge, 



Searched with Apollo's privilege ; 



Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, 



Saw the dance of nature forward far ; 



Through worlds, and races, and terms and times, 



Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. 



EMERSON. 



How can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark, chaotic 

 dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor 

 ever will know ? 



CARLYLE, Sartor. 



