He has crossed the limit of mortal thought and hope, He has reached the world's end and stares beyond; The eyes of mortal body plunge their gaze Into Eyes that look upon eternity. A greater world Time's traveller must explore. At last he hears a chanting on the heights And the far speaks and the unknown grows near: He crosses the boundaries of the unseen And passes over the edge of mortal sight To a new vision of himself and things. He is a spirit in an unfinished world That knows him not and cannot know itself: The surface symbol of his goalless quest Takes deeper meanings to his inner view; His is a search of darkness for the light, Of mortal life for immortality.