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A dwarf three-bodied trinity was her serf. First, smallest of the three, but strong of limb, A low-brow with a square and heavy jowl, A pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds For ever stooped to hammer fact and form.

The mediating light linked body's power, The sleep and dreaming of the tree and plant, The animal's vibrant sense, the thought in man, To the effulgence of a Ray above.

Appointed by the Spirit of the Worlds To mediate with the unknowing depths, A prototypal deft Intelligence Half-poised on equal wings of thought and doubt Toiled ceaselessly twixt being's hidden ends.

THIS too must now be overpassed and left, As all must be until the Highest is gained In whom the world and self grow true and one: Till That is reached our journeying cannot cease.

It drew from sight and sound spiritual power, Made sense a road to reach the intangible: It thrilled with the supernal influences That build the substance of life's deeper soul. Earth-nature stood reborn, comrade of heaven.