A Mind began to see and look at forms And groped for knowledge in the nescient Night: Caught in a blind stone-grip Force worked its plan And made in sleep this huge mechanical world, That Matter might grow conscious of its soul And like a busy midwife the life-power Deliver the zero carrier of the All. Because eternal eyes turned on earth's gulfs The lucent clarity of a pure regard And saw a shadow of the Unknowable Mirrored in the Inconscient's boundless sleep, Creation's search for self began its stir. A spirit dreamed in the crude cosmic whirl, Mind flowed unknowing in the sap of life And Matter's breasts suckled the divine Idea. A miracle of the Absolute was born, Infinity put on a finite soul, All ocean lived within a wandering drop, A time-made body housed the Illimitable. To live this Mystery out our souls came here.