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Our life's uncertain way winds circling on, Our mind's unquiet search asks always light, Till they have learned their secret in their source, In the light of the Timeless and its spaceless home, In the joy of the Eternal sole and one.

The little deities of Time's nether act Who work remote from Heaven's controlling eye, Plotted, unknown to the creatures whom they move, The small conspiracies of this petty reign

Absorbed in the little works of its prison-house It turned around the same unchanging points In the same circle of interest and desire, But thought itself the master of its jail.

It fashioned the life-mind of bird and beast, The answer of the reptile and the fish, The primitive pattern of the thoughts of man.

In war and clasp these life-wants joined the All-Life, Wrestlings of a divided unity Inflicting mutual grief and happiness In ignorance of the Self for ever one.

It hunted and it fled and sniffed the winds, Or slothed inert in sunshine and soft air: It sought the engrossing contacts of the world, But only to feed the surface sense with bliss.