"I exist as I am--that is enough; If no other in the world be aware I sit content; And if each one and all be aware, I sit content. "One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself; And whether I come to my own to-day, or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait. "My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite; I laugh at what you call dissolution; And I know the amplitude of time." What lies through the portal of death is hidden from us; but the laws that govern that unknown land are not all hidden from us, for they govern here and now; they are immutable, eternal. "Of and in all these things I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed, I have dream'd that heroes and good doers shall be under the present and past law, And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law, For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough." And the law not to be eluded is the law of consequences, the law of silent teaching. That is the meaning of disease, pain, remorse. Slow to learn are we; but success is assured with limitless Beneficence as our teacher, with limitless time as our opportunity. Already we begin-- "To know the Universe itself as a road--as many roads As roads for travelling souls. For ever alive; for ever forward. Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied; Desperate, proud, fond, sick; Accepted by men, rejected by men. They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go. But I know they go toward the best, toward something great; The whole Universe indicates that it is good." Going somewhere! And if it is impossible for us to see whither, as in the nature of things it must be, how can we be adequate judges of the way? how can we but often grope and be full of perplexity? But we know that a smooth path, a paradise of a world, could only nurture fools, cowards, sluggards. "Joy is the great unfolder," but pain is the great enlightener, the great stimulus in certain directions, alike of man and beast. How else could the self-preserving instincts, and all that grows out of them, have been evoked? How else those wonders of the moral world, fortitude, patience, sympathy? And if the lesson be too hard comes Death, come "the sure-enwinding arms of Death" to end it, and speed us to the unknown land. "... Man is only weak Through his mistrust and want of hope,"