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To the eye and the ear of the Dreamer	A
This Dream out of darkness flew	B
Through the horn or the ivory portal	C
But he wist not which of the two	B
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It was the Human Spirit	D
Of all men's souls the Soul	E
Man the unwearied climber	A
That climbed to the unknown goal	E
And up the steps of the ages	F
The difficult steep ascent	G
Man the unwearied climber	A
Pauseless and dauntless went	G
ons rolled behind him	H
With thunder of far retreat	I
And still as he strove he conquered	J
And laid his foes at his feet	I
Inimical powers of nature	A
Tempest and flood and fire	A
The spleen of fickle seasons	K
That loved to baulk his desire	A
The breath of hostile climates	L
The ravage of blight and dearth	M
The old unrest that vexes	L
The heart of the moody earth	M
The genii swift and radiant	N
Sabreing heaven with flame	O
He with a keener weapon	P
The sword of his wit overcame	O
Disease and her ravening offspring	Q
Pain with the thousand teeth	R
He drave into night primeval	C
The nethermost worlds beneath	R
Till the Lord of Death the undying	Q
Ev'n Asra l the King	Q
No more with Furies for heralds	L
Came armed with scourge and sting	Q
But gentle of voice and of visage	S
By calm Age ushered and led	T
A guest serenely featured	J
Entering woke no dread	T
And as the rolling ons	L
Retreated with pomp of sound	U
Man's spirit grown too lordly	C
For this mean orb to bound	U
By arts in his youth undreamed of	V
His terrene fetters broke	W
With enterprise ethereal	C
Spurning the natal yoke	W
And stung with divine ambition	P
And fired with a glorious greed	X
He annexed the stars and the planets	L
And peopled them with his seed	X
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Then said he 'The infinite Scripture	A
I have read and interpreted clear	Y
And searching all worlds I have found not	Z
My sovereign or my peer	Y
In what room of the palace of nature	A
Resides the invisible God	A2
For all her doors I have opened	B2
And all her floors I have trod	A2
If greater than I be her tenant	N
Let him answer my challenging call	C
Till then I admit no rival	C
But crown myself master of all '	-
And forth as that word went bruited	N
By Man unto Man were raised	N
Fanes of devout self homage	S
Where he who praised was the praised	N
And from vast unto vast of creation	P
The new evangel ran	C2
And an odour of world wide incense	L
Went up from Man unto Man	C2
Until on a solemn feast day	N
When the world's usurping lord	N
At a million impious altars	L
His own proud image adored	N
God spake as He stept from His ambush	D2
'O great in thine own conceit	N
I will show thee thy source how humble	C
Thy goal for a god how unmeet '	-
	-
Thereat by the word of the Maker	A
The Spirit of Man was led	N
To a mighty peak of vision	P
Where God to His creature said	N
'Look eastward toward time's sunrise '	-
And age upon age untold	N
The Spirit of Man saw clearly	C
The Past as a chart out rolled	N
Beheld his base beginnings	L
In the depths of time and his strife	E2
With beasts and crawling horrors	L
For leave to live when life	E2
Meant but to slay and to procreate	N
To feed and to sleep among	F2
Mere mouths voracities boundless	L
Blind lusts desires without tongue	F2
And ferocities vast fulfilling	Q
Their being's malignant law	C
While nature was one hunger	A
And one hate all fangs and maw	C
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With that for a single moment	N
Abashed at his own descent	N
In humbleness Man's Spirit	N
At the feet of the Maker bent	N
But swifter than light he recovered	N
The stature and pose of his pride	N
And 'Think not thus to shame me	C
With my mean birth ' he cried	N
'This is my loftiest greatness	L
To have been born so low	C
Greater than Thou the ungrowing	Q
Am I that for ever grow '	-
And God forbore to rebuke him	H
But answered brief and stern	G2
Bidding him toward time's sunset	N
His vision westward turn	G2
And the Spirit of Man obeying	Q
Beheld as a chart out rolled	N
The likeness and form of the Future	A
Age upon age untold	N
Beheld his own meridian	P
And beheld his dark decline	H2
His secular fall to nadir	A
From summits of light divine	H2
Till at last amid worlds exhausted	N
And bankrupt of force and fire	A
'Twas his in a torrent of darkness	L
Like a sputtering lamp to expire	I2
	-
Then a war of shame and anger	A
Did the realm of his soul divide	N
''Tis false 'tis a lying vision '	-
In the face of his God he cried	N
'Thou thinkest to daunt me with shadows	L
Not such as Thou feign'st is my doom	J2
From glory to rise unto glory	C
Is mine who have risen from gloom	J2
I doubt if Thou knew'st at my making	Q
How near to thy throne I should climb	K2
O'er the mountainous slopes of the ages	L
And the conquered peaks of time	K2
Nor shall I look backward nor rest me	C
Till the uttermost heights I have trod	N
And am equalled with Thee or above Thee	C
The mate or the master of God '	-
	-
Ev'n thus Man turned from the Maker	A
With thundered defiance wild	N
And God with a terrible silence	L
Reproved the speech of His child	N
And man returned to his labours	L
And stiffened the neck of his will	C
And the ons still went rolling	Q
And his power was crescent still	C
But yet there remained to conquer	A
One foe and the greatest although	C
Despoiled of his ancient terrors	L
At heart as of old a foe	C
Unmaker of all and renewer	A
Who winnows the world with his wing	Q
The Lord of Death the undying	Q
Ev'n Asra l the King	Q
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And lo Man mustered his forces	L
The war of wars to wage	L2
And with storm and thunder of onset	N
Did the foe of foes engage	L2
And the Lord of Death the undying	Q
Was beset and harried sore	A
In his immemorial fastness	L
At night's aboriginal core	A
And during years a thousand	N
Man leaguered his enemy's hold	N
While nature was one deep tremor	A
And the heart of the world waxed cold	N
Till the phantom battlements wavered	N
And the ghostly fortress fell	C
And Man with shadowy fetters	L
Bound fast great Asra l	C
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So to each star in the heavens	L
The exultant word was blown	M2
The annunciation tremendous	L
	-
Death is overthrown	M2
	-
And Space in her ultimate borders	L
Prolonging the jubilant tone	M2
With hollow ingeminations	L
Sighed	N
Death is overthrown	M2
	-
And God in His house of silence	L
Where He dwelleth aloof alone	M2
Paused in His tasks to hearken	M2
	-
Death is overthrown	M2
	-
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Then a solemn and high thanksgiving	Q
By Man unto Man was sung	Q
In his temples of self adoration	M2
With his own multitudinous tongue	Q
And he said to his Soul 'Rejoice thou	N2
For thy last great foe lies bound	N
Ev'n Asra l the Unmaker	A
Unmade disarmed discrowned '	-
	-
And behold his Soul rejoiced not	N
The breath of whose being was strife	E2
For life with nothing to vanquish	O2
Seemed but the shadow of life	E2
No goal invited and promised	N
And divinely provocative shone	M2
And Fear having fled her sister	A
Blest Hope in her train was gone	M2
And the coping and crown of achievement	N
Was hell than defeat more dire	A
The torment of all things compassed	N
The plague of nought to desire	A
And Man the invincible queller	A
Man with his foot on his foes	L
In boundless satiety hungred	N
Restless from utter repose	L
Victor of nature victor	A
Of the prince of the powers of the air	A
By mighty weariness vanquished	N
And crowned with august despair	A
	-
Then at his dreadful zenith	P2
He cried unto God 'O Thou	N2
Whom of old in my days of striving	Q
Methought I needed not now	N2
In this my abject glory	A
My hopeless and helpless might	N
Hearken and cheer and succour '	-
And God from His lonely height	N
From eternity's passionless summits	L
On suppliant Man looked down	M2
And His brow waxed human with pity	A
Belying its awful crown	M2
'Thy richest possession ' He answered	N
'Blest Hope will I restore	A
And the infinite wealth of weakness	L
Which was thy strength of yore	A
And I will arouse from slumber	A
In his hold where bound he lies	L
Thine enemy most benefic	Q
O Asra l hear and rise '	-
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And a sound like the heart of nature	A
Riven and cloven and torn	M2
Announced to the ear universal	C
Undying Death new born	M2
Sublime he rose in his fetters	L
And shook the chains aside	N
Ev'n as some mortal sleeper	A
'Mid forests in autumntide	N
Rises and shakes off lightly	A
The leaves that lightly fell	C
On his limbs and his hair unheeded	N
While as yet he slumbered well	C
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And Deity paused and hearkened	N
Then turned to the undivine	M2
Saying 'O Man My creature	A
Thy lot was more blest than Mine	M2
I taste not delight of se	L