86 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL 



TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE CAYLEY 



PORTRAIT FUND. 



1874. 



O WRETCHED mco of men, to BJKICC confined ! 

 What honour can yo pay to him, whoso mind 



To that which lira l>cyond hath penetrated? 

 Tlio syml>ols lie hath formed t>h:ill sound his praise., 

 And load him on through unimagined ways 



To conquests new, in worlds not yet created. 



First, yo Determinant* ! in ordered row 

 And massive column ranged, before, him go, 



To form a phalanx for his safe protection. 

 Yc powers of the u lh roots of 1 ! 

 Around his head in ceaseless * cycles run, 



As tmembodied spirits of direction* 



And you, ye undevelopable scrolls ! 



Above the host wave your emblazoned rolls, 



Ruled for the record of his bright invention**. 

 Yc cubic surfaces ! by threes and ninen 

 Draw round bin camp your seveu-and-twenty linei 



The seal of Solomon in three dimensions. 



March on, aymtolic host ! with step sublime, 

 Up to the flaming bounds of Spico and Timo I 



There pause, until by Dickinson depicted, 

 In two dimensions, we the form may trace 

 Of him whose soul, too large for vulgar sjuce, 



In ;/ dimensions flourished unrestricted. 



IN MEMORY OF EDWARD WILSON", 

 Who repented of what was in Itis mind to irrtte offer section. 



RIGID BODY (sing*). 

 Gix a body meet a body 

 Fly in* through the air, 

 Gin a body hit a body, 

 Will it fly? and where? 



* !.!., !.!!, . 



