Out of apprenticeship to Ignorance Wisdom upraised him to her master craft And made him an arch-mason of the soul, A builder of the Immortal's secret house, An aspirant to supernal Timelessness: Freedom and empire called to him from on high; Above mind's twilight and life's star-led night There gleamed the dawn of a spiritual day. As so he grew into his larger self, Humanity framed his movements less and less, A greater being saw a greater world. A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase The lines of safety reason draws that bar Mind's soar, soul's dive into the Infinite. ... Even his first steps broke our small earth-bounds And loitered in a vaster freer air. In hands sustained by a transfiguring Might He caught up lightly like a giant's bow Left slumbering in a sealed and secret cave The powers that sleep unused in man within. He made of miracle a normal act... The gifts of the spirit crowding came to him.