Creatures of forest and mead, Earth’s essays in being, all kinds Bound by the navel-knot to the Mother, never astray, They in the ear upon ground will pour their intuitive minds, Cut man’s tangles for Earth’s first broad rectilinear way: Admonishing loftier reaches, the rich adventurous shoots, Pushes of tentative curves, embryonic upwreathings in air; Not always the sprouts of Earth’s root-Laws preserving her brutes; Oft but our primitive hungers licentious in fine and fair. Yet the like aërial growths may chance be the delicate sprays, Infant of Earth’s most urgent in sap, her fierier zeal For entry on Life’s upper fields: and soul thus flourishing pays The martyr’s penance, mark for brutish in man to heel. Her, from a nerveless well among stagnant pools of the dry, Through her good aim at divine, shall commune with Earth remake; Fraternal unto sororial, her, where abashed she may lie, Divinest of man shall clasp; a world out of darkness awake, As it were with the Resurrection’s eyelids uplifted, to see Honour in shame, in substance the spirit, in that dry fount Jets of the songful ascending silvery-bright water-tree Spout, with our Earth’s unbaffled resurgent desire for the mount, Though broken at intervals, clipped, and barren in seeming it be. For this at our nature arises rejuvenescent from Earth, However respersive the blow and nigh on infernal the fall, The chastisement drawn down on us merited: are we of worth Amid our satanic excrescences, this, for the less than a call, Will Earth reprime, man cherish; the God who is in us and round, Consenting, the God there seen. Impiety speaks despair; Religion the virtue of serving as things of the furrowy ground, Debtors for breath while breath with our fellows in service we share. Not such of the crowned discrowned Can Earth or humanity spare; Such not the God let die. III