VII

_I find_, she cries, _in all this march of time

And space, no gulf, no break, nothing that mars

Its unity. I watch the primal slime

Lift Athens like a flower to greet the stars!

I flash my messages from clime to clime,

I link the increasing world from depth to height!

Not yet ye see the wonder that draws nigh,

When at some sudden contact, some sublime

Touch, as of memory, all this boundless night

Wherein ye grope entombed

Shall, by that touch illumed,

Like one electric City shine from sky to sky._

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