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<h4 id="id04820" style="margin-top: 2em">FRAGMENT: TO THE MIND OF MAN.</h4>
<p id="id04822">Thou living light that in thy rainbow hues<br/>
Clothest this naked world; and over Sea<br/>
And Earth and air, and all the shapes that be<br/>
In peopled darkness of this wondrous world<br/>
The Spirit of thy glory dost diffuse<br/>
… truth … thou Vital Flame<br/>
Mysterious thought that in this mortal frame<br/>
Of things, with unextinguished lustre burnest<br/>
Now pale and faint now high to Heaven upcurled<br/>
That eer as thou dost languish still returnest<br/>
And ever<br/>
Before the … before the Pyramids<br/></p>
<p id="id04823">So soon as from the Earth formless and rude<br/>
One living step had chased drear Solitude<br/>
Thou wert, Thought; thy brightness charmed the lids<br/>
Of the vast snake Eternity, who kept<br/>
The tree of good and evil.—<br/></p>
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