The ocean does not shrink or vaster grow,
Though the waves ever ebb and ever flow;
The being of the world's a wave: it lasts
One moment, and the next it has to go.
In the world, men of insight may discern
A stream whose currents swirl and surge and churn,
And from the force that works within the stream
The hidden working of the "Truth" may learn.
"THE GREAT IDEALIST"
Philosophers devoid of reason find
This world a mere idea of the mind;
'Tis an idea--but they fail to see
The great Idealist who looms behind.