| (S 1) | ||
| 735 | Above in a high breathless stratosphere, | |
| Overshadowing the dwarfish trinity, | ||
| Lived, aspirants to a limitless Beyond, | ||
| Captives of Space, walled by the limiting heavens, | ||
| In the unceasing circuit of the hours | ||
| 740 | Yearning for the straight paths of eternity, | |
| And from their high station looked down on this world | ||
| Two sun-gaze Daemons witnessing all that is. | ||
| (S 2) | ||
| A power to uplift the laggard world, | ||
| Imperious rode a huge high-winged Life-Thought | ||
| 745 | Unwont to tread the firm unchanging soil: | |
| Accustomed to a blue infinity, | ||
| It planed in sunlit sky and starlit air; | ||
| It saw afar the unreached Immortal’s home | ||
| And heard afar the voices of the Gods. | ||
| (S 3) | ||
| 750 | Iconoclast and shatterer of Time’s forts, | |
| Overleaping limit and exceeding norm, | ||
| It lit the thoughts that glow through the centuries | ||
| And moved to acts of superhuman force. | ||
| (S 4) | ||
| As far as its self-winged air-planes could fly, | ||
| 755 | Visiting the future in great brilliant raids | |
| It reconnoitred vistas of dream-fate. | ||
| (S 5) | ||
| Apt to conceive, unable to attain, | ||
| It drew its concept-maps and vision-plans | ||
| Too large for the architecture of mortal Space. | ||
| (S 6) | ||
| 760 | Beyond in wideness where no footing is, | |
| An imagist of bodiless Ideas, | ||
| Impassive to the cry of life and sense, | ||
| A pure Thought-Mind surveyed the cosmic act. | ||
| (S 7) | ||
| Archangel of a white transcending realm, | ||
| 765 | It saw the world from solitary heights | |
| Luminous in a remote and empty air. |