650 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. 



By Intellect, in the Unseen residing, 

 And thine doth like a convict sit, 

 "With marlinspike untwisting it, 



Only to find its knottiness abiding ; 

 Since all the tools for its untying 

 In four-dimensioned space are lying, 

 "Wherein thy fancy intersperses 

 Long * avenues of universes, 

 While Klein and Clifford fill the void 

 With one finite, unbounded homaloid, 

 And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed. 



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But when thy Science lifts her pinions 



In Speculation's wild dominions, 

 We treasure every dictum thou emittest, 



While down the stream of Evolution 



We drift, expecting no solution 

 But that of the survival of the fittest. 



Till, in the twilight of the gods, 



When earth and sun are frozen clods, 



When, all its energy degraded, 



Matter to aether shall have faded; 



We, that is, all the work we've done, 



As waves in sether, shall for ever run 

 In ever- widening 2 spheres through heavens beyond the sun. 



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Great Principle of all we see, 



Unending Continuity ! 

 By thee are all our angles sweetly rounded, 



By thee are our misfits adjusted, 



And as I still in thee have trusted, 

 So trusting, let me never be confounded ! 



1 v.r. Whole. 2 v.r. swift expanding. 



