Lo, an atom troubles thee. One bodily fibre crushes thee, One nerve tortures and maddens thee, One drop of blood is death to thee. Art thou but a withering leaf, For a summer season brief Clinging to the tree, ‘Till the winds of circumstance, Whirling in their hourly dance, Prove too much for thee? Art thou but a speck, a mote In the system universal? Art thou but a passing note Woven in the great rehearsal? Canst thou roll back the tide of Thought And unmake the creed of the age, And unteach the wisdom taught By the prophet and the sage? Art thou but a shadow Chasing o’er a meadow? The great world goes on Spite of thy dreaming; Not to be alone Hearts are making their moan And tear-drops streaming, And the mighty voice of Nature Is thy parent, not thy creature, Is no pupil but thy teacher: And the world would still move on Were thy soul forever flown. For while thou dreamest on enfolded In nature’s wide embrace, All thy life is daily moulded By her informing grace. And Time and Space must reign And rule o’er thee forever, And the Outworld lifts its chain From off thy spirit never; But in the dream of thy half-waking fever Thou shalt be mocked with gleam and show Of truths thou pinest for, and yet canst never know. And then the Spirit fled and left the bard Still wondering—for he felt that voices twain Had come from different spheres with different truths That seemed at war and yet agreed in one. C. ANOTHER THEOSOPHICAL PROPHECY. In the first number of THE PATH was inserted a prophecy made from certain books in India called _Nadigrandhams_, respecting the Society. This called forth from the _N. Y. Sun_, that model of journalism, a long tirade about the superficial knowledge which it claims pervades the Society on the subject of oriental philosophy. Unfortunately for the learned editorial writer in that paper, he never before heard of _Nadigrandhams_, which are almost as common in India as the Sun is here, nor does he appear to know what a _Nadi_ may be, nor a _Grandham_, either. But without trying to drag the daily press of this country into the path of oriental knowledge, we will proceed to record another prophecy or two.