Fragment: To the Mind of Man
Thou living light that in thy rainbow huesClothest this naked world; and over SeaAnd Earth and air, and all the shapes that beIn peopled darkness of this wondrous worldThe Spirit of thy glory dost diffuse... truth ... thou Vital FlameMysterious thought that in this mortal frameOf things, with unextinguished lustre burnestNow pale and faint now high to Heaven upcurledThat eer as thou dost languish still returnestAnd everBefore the ... before the Pyramids
So soon as from the Earth formless and rudeOne living step had chased drear SolitudeThou wert, Thought; thy brightness charmed the lidsOf the vast snake Eternity, who keptThe tree of good and evil.--
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