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THE PRINCESS;
And cram him with the fragments of the grave,
Or in the dark dissolving human heart,
And holy secrets of this microcosm,
Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest,
Encarnalize their spirits: yet we know
Knowledge is knowledge, and this matter hangs:
Howbeit ourselves, foreseeing casualty,
Nor willing men should come among us, learnt,
For many weary moons before we came,
This craft of healing, Were you sick, ourselves
Would tend upon you. To your question now,
Which touches on the workman and his work.
Let there be light and there was light; 'tis so:
For was, and is, and will be, are but is;
And all creation is one act at once,
The birth of light: but we that are not all,
As parts, can see but parts, now this, now that,
And live, perforce, from thought to thought, and make
One act a phantom of succession: thus
Our weakness somehow shapes the shadow, Time;
Or in the dark dissolving human heart,
And holy secrets of this microcosm,
Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest,
Encarnalize their spirits: yet we know
Knowledge is knowledge, and this matter hangs:
Howbeit ourselves, foreseeing casualty,
Nor willing men should come among us, learnt,
For many weary moons before we came,
This craft of healing, Were you sick, ourselves
Would tend upon you. To your question now,
Which touches on the workman and his work.
Let there be light and there was light; 'tis so:
For was, and is, and will be, are but is;
And all creation is one act at once,
The birth of light: but we that are not all,
As parts, can see but parts, now this, now that,
And live, perforce, from thought to thought, and make
One act a phantom of succession: thus
Our weakness somehow shapes the shadow, Time;
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