PART III 



The Earth Made Ready 

 for Man 



LESSONS 18-29 



Before beginning and without an end, 



As space eternal, and as surety sure, 



Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, 



Only its laws endure. 

 It maketh and unmaketh, mending all; 

 What it hath wrought is better than hath been ; 

 Slow grows the splendid pattern that it plans 



Its wistful hands between. 



Sir Edwin Arnold 



