"More would I tell that in my bosom burns, But bigot fires would flame as ne'er before; For truth, rejected, friend to traitor turns, 5000 And damns where fain 'twould save. Six mounting o'er, My spirit to a seventh realm[23] did soar, And saw and heard--Ah, would that I might say! Though memory but renewed a former lore, What all may learn when full the dawning day, When twinkling, twilight faith to knowledge shall give way. "Hope not till then to have my history, What life hath scribed to scan; nor tongue nor pen Can tell the tale, dispel the mystery, That hides me from the dim, dull gaze of men. 5010 Sojourning here, within this shadowed scene, A medial stage, a mortal compromise, The spirit's might, the body's weight, between, Deem not that e'en earth's wisest can be wise, Till heaven the blindness touch that seals all human eyes. "One little fold I lift of that vast veil: How came he God, to whom all gods must bow-- The very Sire, whom all the sons now hail As mightiest of the mighty? I avow That even He was once as we are now; 5020 That we like Him can be--yea, by degrees, Mount unto loftiest heights, till on each brow Be writ the Name of Names. Not angels these, But Gods, e'en Sons of God, through all eternities. "Weighed in the balance here, nor wanting found; Tried in the fire, triumphant from the test; Though wrung their hearts, their finest feelings ground, Betwixt life's upper, nether, millstones prest, Till proved, of good and brave, the bravest, best. Less faith than theirs who follow Abraham, 5030 Honoring o'er all Jehovah's high behest, Uplifts no gate of that Jerusalem-- The Bosom of the Gods--the Glory of I AM.[24] "Bide valiant here, as ye were valiant there. Whence came delightsome bodies, soaring minds, Aspiring thrones to win and crowns to wear? Spring not all seeds according to their kinds? Each act, each word, each thought, delivers, binds, Dwarfs or develops. Man's all-crowning state His own creation. What the Judgment finds, 5040 The soul reveals; and weal or woe the fate, 'Tis freedom's chainless choice, for all on will must wait. "Stand as ye stood, my legion brave, what time The starry host, celestial symphony, Choraled the anthem seraphic, sublime, To the spelled ear of all eternity! Lifted your hands for light and liberty[25], When fraud with force progression's path would pave. Fought we with Michael, drove the dragon, he Who planned to seize all worlds, all worlds enslave, 5050 And would have damned, destroyed, what Christ came down to save.