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 DRAMATIS PERSONS. 
 
 Walter. 
 
 Felix, Walter's Son. 
 
 Eric, a Philosopher. 
 
 A Musician. 
 
 Kosmos, the Soul of the World.
 
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 " Whosoever has become thoughtful or melancholy 
 through his own mishaps or those of others . . . who- 
 ever has known ' the pangs of despised love, the inso- 
 lence of office, or the spurns which patient merit of the 
 unworthy takes ; ' he who has felt his mind sink within 
 him, and sadness cling to his heart like a malady, who 
 has had his hopes blighted, and his youth staggered by 
 the apparition of strange things, who cannot be well at 
 ease while he sees evil hovering about him like a spectre, 
 ... he to whom the universe seems infinite, and himself 
 nothing, whose bitterness of soul makes him careless of 
 consequences . . . this is the true Hamlet." — Hazlitt's 
 Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. 

 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Walter had held a high official appointment in the 
 administration of a disaffected province, and had been 
 successful in bringing forward a scheme for remedial 
 legislation, and in restraining the populace from com- 
 mitting any overt act of hostility to the Government. 
 
 Unfortunately, however, just at the critical moment, 
 a collision took place between the military and the 
 people, which was followed by a general rising through- 
 out the province. The revolt was speedily suppressed, 
 and public opinion was quieted by making a scape- 
 goat of W alter, who was required to resign, and who 
 learned that the fact of his having been in communi- 
 cation with the popular leaders had given rise to 
 strong suspicion as to his complicity with their designs. 
 
 Finding himself without a friend at court, and 
 knowing that he had been marked down for assassina-
 
 INTR0DUC7I0X. 
 
 tion by the insurgents, for having as they thought 
 deceived them, Walter, broken in health, in fortune, 
 and in hope, retired with his only son, Felix, under 
 an assumed name, to a distant seaport ; and they 
 have lived there for a year when the scene opens.
 
 K O S M O S. 
 
 ACT I 
 
 DE PROFUNDIS. 
 
 Scene I. — Walter's study. 
 
 \\\t I. How weary is my life! Could I but sleep 
 And wake forgetful, or awake no more ! 
 But rest I cannot ; and as one who falls 
 From mountain heights, and down the long white 
 
 slope 
 ( rashes, yet lives ; so from my pride of place 
 1 lave I been hurtled, and my mind is sore 
 And bruised, and all its fibres ache and burn 
 At touch of memory. My life has passed 
 Like running water, no one heeds my loss ; 
 My place is filled, betraying not a trace 
 Of all my projects. Did I ever live ? 
 I almost doubt it. Yet I laid my plans 
 So carefully ! None other than myself 
 Knew every detail of the vast machine,
 
 KOSMOS. [A( -t r. 
 
 Wheels within wheels, the lever framed to start 
 
 The giant arms in motion, or arrest 
 
 Their course at fitting moment. So complete 
 
 Was my prevision, my design so clear, 
 
 Such perfect knowledge had I of the end 
 
 Before us, and its path, that present needs 
 
 I turned to future opportunities, 
 
 Making our policy suggest itself. 
 
 'Twas ours to deal with factions, diverse creeds, 
 
 An alien nobility, new laws 
 
 Transplanted from a more propitious soil, 
 
 Increasing burdens, and decreasing wealth : • 
 
 And out of these discordant elements 
 
 I framed a bond of common interest, 
 
 Appealing here to hopes, and there to fear-. 
 
 Ami, harder task, no jealousy I roused 
 
 Within the council ; there I kept aloof 
 
 From controversy, claiming not mine own, 
 
 Content for others to efface myself. 
 
 In short, although 'my Lords' within my hands 
 
 Were puppets, yet I made them speak and move 
 
 As if by nature, aiding each so well 
 
 To play the part wherein he most excelled, 
 
 That no one saw his leading-strings, or knew 
 
 The unobtrusive hand that shaped his course. 
 
 Pshaw ! how bombastic does my vaunt appear; 
 And yet I thought it true. Perchance 'twas I
 
 S< i'nk I.] /COSMOS. 
 
 Who cherished dreams, not they. Full time to wake, 
 Yet hard the waking ! All my card-built house 
 Had fallen at a breath. No proof had I 
 Of influence 'or merit. Thoughts and words 
 Lacking protection, are like creatures wild, 
 Fair game for all. My counsel and control 
 Were clean forgotten when my sun had set ; 
 Only routine remembered. 
 
 '• Yes, 'twas true. 
 I had been very useful — in my place ; 
 A mine of information ; they could wish 
 No better Secretary." 
 
 Then I turned 
 For proofs, to my devotion in the cause 
 Of law and order ; to the love of right 
 Which fdled my soul, leaving no room for self. 
 " Well, they had always liked me ; — yet, to speak 
 Truth, there were certain whispers that my aims 
 Were secret, and the facts too well confirmed 
 The worst suspicions ! " 
 
 So I held my peace, 
 Eating my heart in secret. Time passed on ; 
 And as I learned to think impartially, 
 Then not too hardly could I judge 'my Lords,' 
 Who only took me at my word. What clue 
 Had they to trace the motives of a man 
 So blind to his advantage as myself?
 
 io A'OSMOS. [ACT 1 
 
 Now came the hardest blow of all. For once 
 In conversation, when my course was blamed 
 For not insisting on a leading part. 
 Content to act as prompter, thankless task, 
 Unwittingly I said, " You sec what comes 
 ( )f playing Providen< And so we turned 
 
 To other subjects ; but in after days 
 That glared as though they never could grow dark, 
 \nd nights that mocked the promising of morn, 
 I vexed myself with questioning my words. 
 ■ I Providence a person, or a term 
 Epitomizing universal lav. 
 And first I answered, "Mind is lord of all. 
 And personal" I thought my faith in God 
 Was firmly anchored ; till beneath the stri 
 Of I 'notion. g as ebbing tide, 
 
 It broke its moorings, drifting out to s< 
 It drifted tl 
 
 '■ 1 >oes Mind reveal itself 
 To Mind?" 
 
 For if my friends were blind, 
 Failing to trace the art which made my plans 
 
 5t skilful when they seemed most natural ; 
 How much the more niu>t Authorship Divine 
 Surpass discerning, hid behind the veil 
 Of perfect nature, seeming self-evolved ? 
 ■• Has Nature, then, no evidence of God ? " 
 
 ne, where the mind is thoroughly imbued
 
 L] KOSMOS. ii 
 
 With sympathy for universal law ; 
 
 For then unbroken seems the endless chain 
 
 ( >f Evolution through organic form 
 
 Whose natural selection shapes itself, 
 
 Each act of failure serving for the proof 
 
 Of genera] perfection. All which yield 
 
 Beneath the tension of relentless strife 
 
 Return to the great crucible of Death \ 
 
 But e;uh that stands the test of life, becomes 
 
 A link in the vast continuity 
 
 Of Nature, when lone survives. 
 
 And surely 'tis not thus that perfect Mind 
 
 1;- instruments would choose; no need, I ween. 
 
 Knowledge absolute, to cast aside 
 A thousand wasted seeds, that one may bear 
 More perfect fruit : a wasted seed am 1 
 And Nature's method le^s approves itself 
 Than once, when I and Nature were at one. 
 I oken there is not, nor can ever be, 
 Of Clod in Nature, save, perchance, to those, 
 The fortunate, to whom their own success 
 I '.ears witness of beneficent desi 
 
 •• What proof have the unfortunate of God? 
 Wonders and signs ? " No proofs are these to me ; 
 Poor comfort when I look for present help 
 To know the age of miracles has passed ! 
 •' That troubles are the punishment of sin ? "
 
 12 KOSMOS. [A 
 
 Would I could think so ! Then, indeed, were hope 
 
 To suffer by the loving hand of ( rod 
 
 But no ! I pay no penalty for - 
 
 I Vep-dyed although they be. The ills I bear 
 
 Are natural — the common lot of thi 
 
 Who strive and tail, the every day routine 
 
 ( If Nature, cutting down the barren tre 
 
 '• Then, after all, tl 
 
 ind of fortune-huntinj Yt so 
 
 (For Providence should certainly provid 
 But Fortune is not limited to gifts 
 Of outward seeming. Impulses there are 
 Them- I fortune ; such the qui • thirst 
 
 For Knowledge, the idolatry of Art, 
 The fellowship of Man, the love of God 
 — What am 1 ' Well! I t so on 
 
 And were I but fulfilled with one of tin 
 My disappointment - 
 But here the law i re intervei 
 
 Survival of the str 
 
 Like living forms, my thoughts contend for 1 
 And one by one the luxuries of Mi 
 Love of the Wise, the Beautiful, the < lood, 
 Have in their turn succumbed to love of Self 
 Which now pervades my being. Thus at 1 
 Bereft of all the dreams that make life dear, 
 Like to a dying man when all has passed
 
 S. i m 1. 1 A'OSMOS. 
 
 Save the 1 ist instinct, how to draw the breath, 
 I linger on, a hopeless, dying soul. 
 
 But yet one earthly bund remains : my son, 
 Strangely misnamed : ' Infelix' must he 1 
 rhough wherefore thus forestall the evil time 
 Impending all too soon? No ! to myself 
 I keep my sorrows, giving him my smi' 
 That ever he I m unselfish love 
 
 The attribute of ' Father' here on earth, 
 \ broken reflex in the waves of time 
 
 ( )f the eternal I to me. 
 
 Mi'.:' \ : the boj I ; 
 
 I'll to the playground ; them e along thi 
 
 I Ogether we will wend our homeward wa . 
 gloomy thoughts, he banished for to-day. 
 
 [Exit VVai 
 
 IX. 
 
 / .'. I ather, good news ! as I was leaving school 
 \ sailor brought me this. He said it came 
 From Peter just returned from trawling — "glass 
 Meed re." He seemed himself afraid 
 
 To touch it. What, no answer ! No one in? 
 
 [P/thcS a small box on the -^riting-disk. 
 Well, here I'll leave it safe from awkward hands. 
 Now, for a game at hockey on the sands. [Exit Flux.
 
 14 A'OSA/OS. [Ad I 
 
 Sci m II.— r/ts Cliff. 
 Wai i i R a«<tf Erii . 
 
 J J'n/. This evening then, shall test your new defei 
 In the Qu< imbit ? 
 
 Eric Not to-night, my friend ; 
 
 Impressions ever fleeting must be seized 
 Betimes. 
 
 //'<//. The Magnum ( >pus has a claim 
 1'rior, no doubt, to pleasure Still — 
 
 Eric. To dreams 
 
 I know thee ever gentle, and a dream 
 My work perforce must seem, to those who tlout 
 At metaphysics as a b quest, 
 
 The ' north-west passage ' of the Intelle 
 
 Wai. Nay ! though explorers find no channel fi 
 Their labour is not lost. How many li\es 
 Lie misadventured on the sunken r< 
 Which thou wilt figure on the chart, though Fate 
 Deny, that following the drift of thought 
 Thou find safe haven in another world. 
 But why this sudden press ? 
 
 Eric. As yesternight 
 
 I mused, an open book upon my knee : 
 (An ancient dissertation on the soul 
 That animates the world) and whilst I watched
 
 - m II.] KOSM 
 
 The mystic wreaths of pale blue smoke ascend 
 In vortices suggesting subtle mod 
 Of force and motion, through my brain there 
 A sudden intuition of the terms 
 M irking the process of development 
 om Matter to Intelligence. A m 
 
 Per< hance, an idle fancy horn in s; 
 
 And scarcely less fantastic in its form. 
 
 U'ti/. Fantastic arc my own imagining 
 But phantoms though they he, like vampires grim. 
 They drain my very Life-blood. Prithee, tell 
 Thy dream, if only to divert my the 
 
 Eric. No author needs I treated twi 
 
 fancy this — 
 
 In things inanimate, 
 The ' individual ' and 'circumstam e ' 
 Meet on the terms of absolute ezchanj 
 1 L( h giving hack as much as it 
 
 ch may become the other; each bj 
 Is perfectly conditioned ; naught remains 
 When both have played their parts, save some new 
 
 phase 
 Of combination. But in living forms 
 Even the Amplest 'individuals' 
 Are not conditioned to their full extent, 
 but trading with their 'circumstance,' retain
 
 16 A'OSMOS. [A< I I. 
 
 Some benefit, since though they take their due 
 
 They pay not back its full equivalent 
 
 And this first surplus marks the primal step 
 
 In evolution through organic life. 
 
 Succeeding steps arc questions of d 
 
 What use the 'individual ' will make 
 
 Of vantage hardly won from ' circumstam 
 
 Freeing himself by subtle artifice 
 
 From touch of his surroundings, loosing bond-; 
 
 Of strict condition. At the first his gains 
 
 Barely suffice for reproductive force ; 
 
 But in the next gradations, store is made 
 
 Knough to form the nucleus of ' self,' 
 
 Seeking security by wise device. 
 
 So Feeling, in the lowest forms of li 
 
 Sensation, when the functions play their part ; 
 
 Impression, as the brain acquires control; 
 
 Thought, when the mind is free to use its strength ; 
 
 All these are interposing barriers 
 
 Which check the onset of external for< . 
 
 While 'self the strong man armed, who sits within 
 
 res nothing for the angry roar without. 
 Indeed so little does man feel the stress 
 Of outward nature, that he claims Free Will ; 
 An empty vaunt, for though the bonds be loosed 
 They are not broken, though they be of gold 
 They still are fetters, though the walls be strong 
 Sooner or later their innate defect
 
 II.] A'OSMOS. 17 
 
 Shall manifest itself, no single stone 
 Still standing on another. Then the foe 
 The outward ' circumstance ' shall press within, 
 And 'self lie prostrate, of his goods despoiled. 
 
 Is this the last development of mind? 
 
 Not so ! methinks that Nature goes too far 
 
 In making Life, or else not tar enough 
 
 In making Death. The problem ends not here ; 
 
 For, walls once circled round organic life, 
 
 A lighter task it seems, to make these walls 
 
 A living barrier ; to crown the ' self 
 
 A King surrounded by a faithful race 
 
 Of subjects, forming up the death-made gaps, 
 
 Ever replenishing a fruitful land. 
 
 Communities of living forms predict 
 
 The perfect body of the higher mind ; 
 
 I this my work, by patient quest to trace 
 The Soul which these societies foretell. 
 No light endeavour. Dost thou wish me well? 
 
 Wal, My friend '. if ever it should be my lot 
 To converse hold with spirits ; then thy thoughts 
 Shall govern mine, and nothing will I seek 
 Of ghostly apparitions. No! my goal 
 Kosmos shall be. the World's pervading Soul. 
 
 [Exeunt ambo.
 
 iS A'OSMOS. [Am I. 
 
 Scene II I. — A playground. /•■ ys //< tying prisoner^ 
 
 Enter W'al i ; 
 
 Wal. My time is overstay'd ; an evil sign 
 That talk of Kosmos loses me my s 
 Leaving me lonelier for yonder throi 
 merrily that little fellow scuds ! 
 13ut over venturesome ; and see, at last 
 He meets his fate, and, captive, takes his place 
 In prison. Will his comrades rescue him ? 
 Now is the moment ; ere the bigger bo; 
 Their enemies, can get them back to bounds. 
 Why hesitate? How like to grown-up men 
 Are children ! these should politicians be. 
 For, see, instead of playing out the game 
 They squabble with each other till they lo 
 Their opportunity. Stay ! there one start-. 
 Will he be challenged ? ¥es ; the swiftest boy 
 Darts forward, following at speed. 
 And quickly gains advantage. Which will win ? 
 How far the little prisoner extends 
 His eager hand, and stretches towards his friend ! 
 Rescued at last ? Xo ; ere the two can touch, 
 The enemy comes up, the comrade swerve . 
 And, turning, leaves the captive to his fate. 
 Too late ! 
 
 Ah ! woe is me for all the flood 

 
 - n III.] A'OSJ/OS. 
 
 19 
 
 Of memory that surges through my brain 
 As thought recalls the presage of those words 
 " Too late ! " Alone, and in a far-off land, 
 I see the Hero, resolute and calm, 
 Fulfilled with the great purpose self-imposed 
 Of loosening the bonds which lust of gain 
 Unchecked, imposes on a weaker race. 
 There bides he, watching for the timely aid 
 That Providence, he fondly trusts, will grant 
 By human agency. Through long delays 
 For grave deliberation, and debates 
 Political, imprisoned though he be, 
 He stands undaunted, stretching forth his hand 
 For succour. Now at last a Nation's heart 
 Pulses responsive, and the rhythmic beat 
 Of custom quickens, till the bonds of state. 
 High policy, economy, repute, 
 All, all are flung aside, and naught is heard 
 Save the one cry of " Rescue ! ; ' Blood and gold 
 .Shall tlow like water. Once again the roll 
 Of Fame shall be emblazoned with the an 
 Of mighty captains, and another leaf 
 Be added to the scroll, by mortal ban 1 
 Unwritten, and by mortal eye unread, 
 That of the unrecorded brave, for whom 
 Is no distinction. Comes an hour at last, 
 When all the land is ringing with glad sound. 
 ie foe is vanquished ! nothing now to fear !
 
 20 /COSMOS. [Act I. 
 
 Only another day, and then " That day 
 
 Never knew breaking, save of breaking hearts. 
 
 1 'eliverer and captive never joined 
 
 Their hands. " Too late ! " it was the hand of Death 
 
 That clasped the book for all remaining time. 
 
 Type of the forsaken ! lives like thine 
 Are leaven to invigorate the world ; 
 
 But little liking has the world for those 
 Who gauge not worth by scientific test, 
 
 1 Survival by success,' the solid base 
 Whereon our social fabric firmly rests. 
 The true antagonist to higher aims 
 
 Is Habit ; and the great pursuits which shape 
 
 Our modes of thought and intercourse with men 
 
 Science, and Politics, and Trade, agree 
 
 In furnishing a rational excuse 
 
 For leaving open questions where response 
 
 1 vpends on terms incapable of proof 
 
 By rigid demonstration. These we waive, 
 
 Deferring judgment till a future time 
 
 Never to come, so busy are our lives. 
 
 But yet we cannot so dismiss careers 
 
 Adding new chapters to our Book of Days. 
 
 We dare not be Agnostics about lives 
 
 Of heroes. These we shelve by classing them 
 
 Among the ferments ; natures which disturb 
 
 The body politic, fulfilling thus
 
 Scene III.] A'OSMOS. 21 
 
 Their part, unlike the lot of common men. 
 We say, " A little leaven may be good, 
 But not too much," and turn the parable 
 As recognizing interest our rule, 
 Unselfishness the foreign element 
 Good for emergencies ; and these once passed 
 We gladly seek again the old routine, 
 Choosing the ' is,' losing the 'might have been.' 
 
 END OF ACT I.
 
 22 KOSMOS. [Act II. 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 DIXI CUSTODIAM. 
 
 Scene I. — Room in Walter's house. Felix busy 
 drawing with compasses, etc. 
 
 Enter Walter. 
 
 Wal. Why, Felix, how industrious you are ! 
 I scarcely thought that Euclid had such charms, 
 At least for you. 
 
 Fel. Father, this is not work ; 
 
 I only try to copy, if I can, 
 The signet of King Solomon. 
 
 Wal. My son, 
 
 Intending thus to practise magic arts, 
 You should not trace the double triangle 
 ( ' Pentacle ' is, I think, the proper term) 
 On paper, but on parchment ; nor should ink 
 Be used, but the more precious fluid, blood. 
 
 Fel. Oh, father, you are joking ! But you know- 
 About the signet. Have I drawn it right ?
 
 Scene I.] R'OSMOS. 23 
 
 Wal. Yes, perfectly ; but whence this sudden zeal 
 For necromancy ? Much I fear my cat, 
 The black one, has bewitched you ; but one paw 
 Is white, and that I think destroys the charm. 
 
 Fel. Well, father, you must know, this afternoon, 
 Monsieur Girardin gave the upper fourth 
 A fairy-tale to render into French ; 
 The story, how a lucky fisherman 
 Landed a bottle with a leaden seal, 
 Imprisoning a Genie fast within. 
 And then he told us how it came to pass 
 That Solomon But do you care to hear ? 
 
 Wal. Assuredly ; though, Felix, you and I 
 Would manage better than that fisherman ! 
 
 Fel. Indeed, we would. Oh ! father, I forgot, 
 .\ sailor met me just when leaving school 
 And brought a box from Peter. On your desk 
 I left it. 
 
 Wal. Thanks ! The boats are fortunate 
 So soon returning. Doubtless, Peter sends 
 A fleet of prizes for my microscope, 
 Marvels of nature. But your marvel first. 
 
 Fel. Well, " Solomon," he said, " was once in love 
 With a Princess more beautiful than day ; 
 And when he wedded her, she brought a rose 
 From home, and planted it within the Court 
 Of Fountains, fencing it with golden bars 
 In double triangle ; and so she died.
 
 24 A'OSMOS. [Act II. 
 
 Then Solomon the King was very sad 
 Mourning her loss, and never smiled again, 
 And of a crystal jewel which she wore 
 His signet-ring he made. Upon one face 
 A rose was graven ; but reversed, it bore 
 The sacred name. The gem was set in gold, 
 Alike in fashion to the bars which fenced 
 The living rose. 
 
 Thenceforth King Solomon 
 Would never from his finger loose the ring. 
 And every wish he formed was gratified 
 By Genies, subject to its magic spell, 
 Until throughout the world the talisman 
 Gained fame beyond compare ; but ere the King 
 Had breathed his last, it vanished, nor was seen 
 Again until the time when Cyrus won 
 The empire of the world. Once more it passed 
 From sight of man until King Philip's son 
 Discovered it, and so became the Great. 
 No mortal since has owned it " 
 
 Ual. Not the Great 
 
 Napoleon ? 
 
 Fcl. Oh ! I forgot ; Monsieur, 
 
 Shrugging his shoulders, said, " There was no need, 
 // etait Fratifais." 
 
 Wal. That was quite enough. 
 
 But did your most veracious friend explain 
 How such a charm so long could stay concealed ?
 
 Scene I.] KOSMOS. 25 
 
 Fel. Oh yes ; " Unless it came by accident 
 Unsought, 'twas but an ordinary stone." 
 And that is all the story. How I wish 
 That I had such a ring ! A lamp would do 
 Almost as well, though. 
 
 Wal. Quite, if I might say 
 
 That it is after nine, and time for bed. 
 
 Fel. Why, so it is. Father, good night. 
 
 Wal. Good night. 
 
 [Exit Felix. 
 
 Wal. How long belief in charms retains its strength ! 
 And yet 'tis natural. A rose I wear 
 To-day, and Fortune smiles. She will not frown 
 To-morrow, surely, if I wear a rose. 
 Martyrs have died for logic worse than this, 
 Bad though it be. But, touching this same ring 
 Compelling spirits, will our logic hold 
 By which we argue from experience 
 Of Mind attached to Matter, that this tie 
 , Is indispensable, and higher state 
 Of disembodied soul, beyond belief? 
 Yet, starting from the inorganic base 
 Devoid of life, and mounting up the stairs 
 Of life organic to their topmost step, 
 To Man, we falter, tracing back our path, 
 Crying, " No further could we pass. 'Twas dark ; 
 The staircase led to nowhere." Just as if 
 The scale of structure were designed to form
 
 2 6 KOSMOS. [Act II. 
 
 A monument, with Man upon the top! 
 
 It seems to me more rational to say, 
 
 " Knowing two terms, the first devoid of life, 
 
 Organic life the second, we infer 
 
 An unknown third— super-organic life.'* 
 
 Nor are there wanting hints that, after all. 
 The thought so long forgotten may be true 
 And Earth be animate. In lifeless forms 
 The growth by aggregation, and the bent 
 ( )f gravitation toward the larger mass, 
 Leading to nothing save extended si/c, 
 1 oretold the era of organic life. 
 The coral reef, the hive, the beaver's dam, 
 The town, the state, present communities, 
 The far-off commonwealth of man, predict 
 A state of being higher than our own. 
 Super-organic, based on many lives — 
 The Spirit of the World. 
 
 I know thee well 
 Of old, thou clear, cold, keen Intelligence. 
 I live, and thou regardest not ; I die, 
 And thou regardest not. Thou art indeed 
 The essence of success ; thou takest all 
 And givest nothing ; thou hast had my life, 
 But I, poor bankrupt, I have naught in thee. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Longing for rest, my restless thoughts press on
 
 Scem II A'OSMOS. 27 
 
 As though to cheat the time, until the voice 
 
 Of fateful verdict. Fancies hurry past 
 
 Like steeds, first cantering, but breaking soon 
 
 From canter into gallop, as of old 
 
 While I was still a child, those trumpet-shells 
 
 Upon the mantel-shelf would rock when pushed; 
 
 At first with measured beat, more quickly timed 
 
 As the vibrations shortened, till they made 
 
 A rattle like a railway train at speed. 
 
 Why ! well I recollect the night when first 
 
 My father brought them home, and started them 
 
 To please his youngest son, myself. But stay : 
 
 Not both would clatter, for I call to mind 
 
 That one would never answer to the touch 
 
 So freely as its fellow. Which of them, 
 
 1 wonder, was the sluggard ? Let me try. 
 
 [Tilting first shell. 
 That was my playmate. See ! it still responds. 
 
 [Tilting second shell. 
 Ah ! as I thought, this will not oscillate, 
 Yet both alike they seem ; the shell, perchance, 
 Is out of balance. Some unwonted guest 
 Lodged in the spiral would suffice for this. 
 If so, my knife inserted thus, will reach 
 The stranger. As I thought, an obstacle 
 Arrests it ! So ! it yields and severed falls 
 A fragment. Is it resin ? See ! it burns 
 Like some rich aromatic gum, and fills
 
 28 A'OSMOS. [An II. 
 
 My room with its sweet perfume. Needs must use 
 Its parent stock more tenderly. Ah ! here 
 I have it. No ! 'tis broken. 
 
 What is this 
 Fair kernel to the nut of ambergris ? 
 A crystal, set within two triangles, 
 And graven with a rose ? 
 
 It is the Ring ! 
 Say, am I dreaming ? Fast the revel speeds 
 Upon the stately ship. The heavy air 
 Faints, laden with rich scent of luscious wines, 
 Spices, and unguents rare ; and now the King, 
 His fever-heat abating, prostrate sinks 
 In death-like stupor. From his nerveless hand, 
 Loosened by venal fingers, slips the ring ; 
 Hastily hidden in the softened wax 
 Of torch propitious and therein embalmed, 
 Ere she who hid can find, its lot is cast 
 Among the treasures of the Persian Sea. 
 In ocean depths for centuries it lies, 
 Till Fate so wills that to my erring hand, 
 On which I place it — thus, it come unsought, 
 Making me Lord of earth, and sea, and sky ! 
 
 How shall I use thee, mystic gem, whose light 
 Sparkles upon my finger like a star 
 Prophetic of the future ? Like a king, 
 Summoning council ere I pass decrees.
 
 Scene II.] KOSMOS. 29 
 
 The moon, full-orb'd, is mounting to her throne 
 Above the heights, the sea is satisfied 
 With tithe of goodly merchandise, and smiles 
 Placid and ealm, in silver vesture lapped, 
 The wind is hushed, as fits the air of Courts. 
 My Court I'll hold upon the furthest point 
 Of yon grey headland jutting out to sea ; 
 There will I hansel my prosperity. 
 
 [Exit Walter. 
 
 Scene II. — A headland. Moonlight. 
 
 Enter Walter, 
 
 Ha/. Our lives are spell -bound. Scarce an hour 
 has passed 
 Since Fancy whispered that my hands were free. 
 And yet already do I feel the bonds 
 Fast as before. No sooner do I dream 
 Fulfilment of desire within my reach 
 Than, ere my aspiration takes its wing, 
 It droops and dies. How often have I craved 
 Oblivion, but now the thought betrays 
 My former ignorance. Recall the past, 
 And on life's dial set the shadow back ? 
 Not so, for that were suicide indeed 
 If pain be education. Fool ! to lose 
 Fruition of my task so hardly learned,
 
 30 s.VOS. [Act IT. 
 
 Shifting the bearings of experien< e, 
 The central pivot upon which revoh 
 The golden portal of futurity. 
 
 Nay ! if with failure comes the end ; no door 
 Leading to further possibility 
 Then Nature's law is final, an - 
 Survival of the fittest, reigns supreme 
 Why, this the very iron rampart whei 
 My soul recoiled, !1 1 strengthen it 
 
 H ping up earths 'er my buried 1 
 
 Never ! While life remains, 
 No 1 Li t a l urse. 
 
 Vet life 
 
 lit surely make a fairer .start from now 
 With fresh advantage, and the knowledge gained 
 From past experience? There was a time 
 When welcome would have been all help r 
 From things above, upon, beneath the earth 
 
 further my That lime i-> p. 
 
 My calling have I lost, and r 
 m equally divided. I >u; 
 •■ Physit ian, thou must save the si< kly elm 
 Though sickly children enervate the ra 
 
 calling binds him. No such plea is mi 
 And therefore the supreme philanthropy 
 Bidding two corn row in place of one 
 
 To me means only that the fight for life- 
 Is stayed, until the falling price of corn
 
 s. !M II.l KOSMOS. 3 i 
 
 Raises the birth-rate, when the ceaseless strife 
 Anew commences. Nay, no heart ha\ I 
 1 world reforming. 
 
 Wherefore not requ< 
 Advantage fur myself — Love, Honour, Fam< 
 \!i, no ! Dot one of these fair crowns I'd wear 
 By borrowed merit ; they were not) >rth 
 
 l nless I won them by myself alone. 
 Wisdom and Wealth ? 
 
 These in themselves are - 
 Well worth the askin ire not ask 
 
 Unguardedly, r they turn to snai 
 
 My idols have they been, not in, 
 
 but influences to propiti 
 by sat 1 iii. e of life-work at their shrin 
 [dols —till let them be. No store be mine 
 I >f riches more than present needs demand : 
 Nor more of wisdom than shall speed the qu 
 1 which the recent current of my life 
 Has drawn my spirit To this end 1 
 For rid unseen ; that Mind 
 
 (If mind there be to animate this Earth) 
 ...mid show itself. 
 
 In yonder little bay. 
 larger than an amphitheatre, 
 The yellow sand, speckled with tiny shells, 
 Forms fitting stage. The scene it looks upon 
 Is Ocean, lighted by the rounded moon,
 
 3^ KOSMOS. [Act II. 
 
 Now pausing at its zenith, ere it sinks 
 . ards the sea. 
 
 To this fair strand I turn 
 My steps, and there, where now the line 
 ( )f water slowly yields its place to land, 
 1 will, that by the virtue of this Ring, 
 The Spirit of the World, in human guise, 
 Reveal its mystery to mortal eyes. 
 
 I OF ACT II.
 
 . !.] A'OSMOS. 
 
 ACT III. 
 
 QUARE FREMUERUNT. 
 
 Scene I. — The Witched Bay. Moonlight. 
 
 Walter and Kosmos. 
 
 Kos. Why am I summoned? What strange fon e 
 compels 
 Thought into speech, the ' Ego.' of the World 
 Into the semblance of a mortal form ? 
 I, who possess the keys of human life 
 And death, success and failure, bliss and \v 
 Now hearken to an echo of the 
 A Long-forgotten memory that once 
 
 poke prosperity, but now forebodes 
 Evil to my dominion, and I come 
 To meet with my opponent face to face. 
 
 ik. child of Earth ; the charm has wrought thy will. 
 Wal. Prince of the World, no war I wage with thee, 
 Not hostile was the message that I sent, 
 
 : do I call on thee from idle whim, 
 N • yet to prove n : but to learn,
 
 34 KOSMOS. [Act II f. 
 
 If learn I may, concerning thine estate, 
 And if our natures be in aught akin. 
 
 Kos. I hate thee, and would slay thee if I might. 
 Wal. Why so? I never wronged thee; nor is 
 life 
 To me so precious ; but what stays thine hand 
 Who claimest sway o'er human life and death ? 
 
 Kos. When one who loved me held that guerdon 
 fair, 
 The world could never satisfy his needs ; 
 And all the more I loved the prodigal 
 Like a fond parent, glad to spoil his child. 
 But thou who hast the ball beneath thy feet 
 A^kest me naught save questions. Though the World 
 Be thine, thou dost not worship me, and yet 
 My strength I may not use nor work my will 
 Against the wearer of the mystic Ring. 
 
 Wal. Spirit, or what thou art, or good, or ill, 
 Full little knowest thou my heart of hearts, 
 Thus saying that I do not worship thee. 
 Whom worship I besides? How oft one word 
 Of thine has overborne my Litany, 
 And drawn me down to earth, a willing slave ? 
 Kos. Tis true, and yet thou dost not worship me. 
 Wal. Thou mockest me, else wherefore should I 
 dread 
 The daily search for manna, craving first 
 Provision certain made for many years ?
 
 Scene I.] A'OSMOS. 
 
 03 
 
 Should I have crossed the lake, had I not heard 
 That after service there would be a dole 
 Of loaves and fishes ? nay, hadst thou kept faith 
 And paid my hire, should I not still be thine? 
 
 Kos. I am not CEdipus, nor art thou Sphinx. 
 
 Wal. How like an oracle that answer was ! 
 I always thought the questioners at shrines 
 Supplied their own responses. Let, I pray, 
 This vain reiteration cease. Believe 
 I mean thee well ; and if thy portraiture 
 Be true, and thou the Kosmos, then thy World 
 Should be the Universe, thy peers the Stars, 
 And great is my desire to learn of thee 
 The secret of thy being, if thy life 
 Has ever known beginning, and the scope 
 Of thine Intelligence — wilt answer me ? 
 
 Kos. Yes, I will search the record of the past, 
 And read it by the light of after-thought. 
 
 ***** 
 When first I woke to consciousness of Self 
 I felt that I was traversing the void 
 With twofold revolution speeding on, 
 Circling around a nobler form than mine, 
 Myself encircled by a smaller sphere. 
 My whole endeavour was to run my course, 
 Exulting in my own untiring strength ; 
 Nor through the ages has my impulse changed, 
 Nor ever satiate is my desire
 
 36 A'OSMOS. [Act III. 
 
 For progress ; neither seek I more than this 
 Still to maintain the Universal law- 
 Recurring faithful to my place and time. 
 That law is my delight ; my nature wills 
 That I unceasingly, with Sun and Moon 
 Should move in evolutions, marked by man 
 In change of times and seasons, day and night, 
 Winter and summer, ocean's flow and ebb, 
 And larger cycles far beyond thy ken. 
 But though my circuit round the central sphere 
 Is shared by nearer and more distant orbs, 
 Naught know I of my fellows, save the bond 
 Uniting us. My life is in myself; 
 And all volition and perception turn 
 Inwards, not outwards. In this inner life- 
 Sensation plays no part. There must have been 
 An age (for it is chronicled on stone, 
 In characters of fire and frost and flood) 
 When ebullitions of a pent-up force 
 
 nvulsed all Nature : yet I heeded not. 
 Nor does the course of elemental strife, 
 ( )r varied combination change my mood ; 
 For I am self-contained, and not like thee, 
 Subject by change to loss or injury. 
 
 //"<//. That I can understand, but yet I deem 
 Such impulse too mechanical for life, 
 And such sensation too monotonous. 
 The World might be considered animate
 
 Scene I.] KOSMOS. 37 
 
 If now and then it wandered from its course. 
 I might imagine that the Earth could feel, 
 If ever it were capable of pain. 
 But in the picture thou hast drawn, I see 
 No lights, nor colour, only neutral tints, 
 And little charm has such a life for me. 
 
 Kos. And that which is not pleasing is not true? 
 But men confuse two processes distinct — 
 Sensation and perception. Men infer 
 That perfect Order is mechanical, 
 Because they know how oft they miss their place. 
 Men think that contrast gives sensation strength 
 Because they find relief in loss of pain. 
 But tell me, If there were a perfect man, 
 As soldier, would he ever place his troops 
 In wrong formation ; or, as sailor, steer 
 Wide of his course ; or, as a statesman, frame 
 Bad laws ? 
 
 Wal. {aside). (This is a most Socratic shade.) 
 No, surely, else would skill belie itself. 
 
 Kos. Then grant that I am perfect in my art ; 
 My nature and my law are one. For me 
 To deviate would be unnatural. 
 And pure sensation is not relative ; 
 The child feels keenly, but at once forgets ; 
 Men revel in their health and strength and skill 
 Without contrasting 'then' and 'now.' Nor deem 
 My life insipid. All delights of sense —
 
 38 A'OSMOS. [Act III. 
 
 Sweet odours, pleasant taste, melodious sound, 
 Soft touch, and fairest scene, are tame beside 
 The rapture of my grand triumphal march 
 In measured cadence, as I keep my place 
 Amidst the evolutions of the spheres. 
 
 Wal. Spirit, my speech was foolish j heed it not. 
 Kos. But think not that I prize my outward state, 
 Rich though it be, compared with that within. 
 For I recall the time when consciousness 
 Began to show itself in higher modes 
 Than those of mere sensation, even whilst 
 The waste of waters rounded all the land. 
 Then, where blue seas by sun and wind were kissed, 
 \ cloud-like film of tiny creatures formed, 
 i ree as the wave, and changeful as the breeze ; 
 And fleeting fancies floated on my deeps, 
 Transparent inconsistencies as yet, 
 Till solid ground was formed and blent with sea 
 Most closely there, where rivers lose themselves 
 In confluence with ocean, setting free 
 The springs of adaptation. Then my dreams 
 Became coherent, and a strange, strong force, 
 Less weighty than sensation, though more keen, 
 Impressed me with the touch of sympathy 
 For living things that doomed to ceaseless war 
 For mere existence, strive, nor rest content 
 With bare success, but make success, advance. 
 Still, as I watched the ages wax and wane,
 
 «. 
 
 S( f.xe I.] JCOSMOS. 
 
 Fraught with the future of organic life, 
 
 And traced the steps by which Sensation yields 
 
 Its birthright to Impression, in myself 
 
 Impressions ever strengthened. Thus at length 
 
 "When Man appeared, and Thought usurped the 
 
 place 
 Pre-eminent, I saw in human eyes 
 A multiform reflection of myself, 
 And knew the genesis of Mind complete. 
 
 Wal. I doubt not that Existence, when detached 
 From gross material bondage, far transcends 
 In liberty of thought, the lower state 
 Of liberty of action. To its depths 
 My soul is stirred ; now therefore, answer me 
 By what degrees does Intellect arise 
 From Sense ; and passing on beyond the bounds 
 Of Mind attached to Matter, does a state 
 Super-organic, abstract Thought, exist ? 
 
 Kos. Thy question I will meet by analogue. 
 Supposing that v/e two were born as slaves, 
 Deprived of all the rights of property, 
 Should we not find that when our toil was done 
 No gain whatever would remain to us ? 
 
 Wal. That would indeed be so. 
 
 Kos. Then slavery 
 
 Defines the hopeless nature of the strife 
 In things material ; but when we gain 
 Our freedom, though our earnings be but small,
 
 40 K0SM0S. [Act III. 
 
 They are our own, and somewhat we may save. 
 
 This the first stand-point of organic life 
 
 Whereon the freedman ranks above the slave. 
 
 Next, he is independent, and for ' self 
 
 Turns to account whatever fortune brings. 
 
 Soon he will be a master, and employ 
 
 Servants to work according to his will. 
 
 Labour will be divided ; each his task 
 
 Will know and do, until at last the head 
 
 I >evotes itself to management alone. 
 
 This marks the utmost limit of the height 
 
 To which the nobler animals attain. 
 
 But keeping to our analogue (as fits 
 
 This age of industry), the race of man 
 
 Transcends this limit, for it finds a means 
 
 Akin to that which money serves in trade, 
 
 Whereby all kinds of things are interchanged 
 
 Without their ever passing through the mart. 
 
 So Language is the currency of Thought, 
 
 Which wanting, though the man might have a mind, 
 
 It would lie latent, or so little used 
 
 That we should liken his sagacity 
 
 To that of elephants or dogs. 
 
 Wal. But say, 
 
 What of the aftergrowth of Speech, whose use 
 Resolves all times, all places, and all things 
 Within our own experience ? Ah, books 
 Must be the paper currency of Thought !
 
 Scene I.] KOSMOS. 41 
 
 Kos. A truce to jesting, though the shaft strike home; 
 But note, I pray thee, that one farther step 
 Is needful ere we reach the perfect Mind. 
 And here, again, our analogue holds good, 
 For hitherto the trader has been bound, 
 Though e'er so lightly, by the exigence 
 Of his vocation. Now, suppose his gains 
 More than sufficient for his utmost needs, 
 So that, relinquishing to younger hands 
 The strife for wealth, he may indulge his ease, 
 Acquiring great estate, and handing down 
 Both means and inclination to achieve 
 The highest culture, turned to greatest use. 
 Then let me paint a picture of the Man 
 The least of all conditioned by his lot ; 
 No mushroom life is his ; for noble birth 
 Links past with present, giving future hope 
 In the traditions of a lordly race. 
 The heir to great estate, his revenues 
 Amply secure, no need for him to strive 
 For prize of Fortune in the lists of Fame ; 
 Nor from the point of Mind excels he less, 
 For large Ambition prompts to princely deeds, 
 Vast enterprises of renown ; his wealth 
 Magnificently used, gives outward form 
 To aims magnificent. 
 
 Then multiply 
 By opportunity this great magnificence
 
 42 AVSMOS. [Act III. 
 
 A thousand-fold : remove this princely Self 
 Beyond all chance of failure or reverse : 
 Crown him with amaranth and asphodel, 
 With never-ending life and endless youth : 
 ( Irant him the grandest aims, the widest scope 
 Of high Intelligence, until he seem 
 Worthy of praise, and worship without stint 
 A very God whose nature is success 
 And power, and yet again Success and Power. 
 Then bow before the ' Ego ' of the World ! 
 
 II 'n!. I think I understand. Thy Spirit dwells 
 As said my teacher, within living walls, 
 Those walls the great community of Man : 
 But so far all thine inward life is lost 
 In contemplation. 
 
 Tell me next, I pray, 
 How far extends thine active influence? 
 
 Kos. I live for progress; all my inward force 
 1 - -pent in perfecting the art of life 
 (Self-preservation wearing two-fold guise 
 Of Enterprise and Vigilance) in Mind 
 As Nature strives to perfect it in Form. 
 Nature is my involuntary life, 
 And she throughout organic structure prompts 
 That forms should break beyond their narrow bounds 
 And issue forth in new developments 
 Protective or aggressive. 
 
 This the source
 
 Scene I] KOSMOS. 43 
 
 Of all the infinite variety 
 
 Of function, as by endless artifice 
 
 The hunter captures, or the prey escapes. 
 
 Yet not inherent is the art of life 
 
 As constant presence makes it seem to be ; 
 
 Free gift it is of Nature, common wealth 
 
 Shared among all that draw their life from Earth. 
 
 This gift I share with Man, enlarging Mind 
 
 By urging it to fresh development. 
 
 W'al. So far I follow thee : but what the plans 
 Wherein thou takest pleasure, and the means 
 By which thy purposes are realized ? 
 
 Kos. Like chooses like \ and therefore, though my 
 sway 
 Extends o'er Mind in its less perfect forms, 
 Yet most my rule is manifest in Man ; 
 And chiefest my delight in those who rise 
 Above the common level of their race : 
 Great conquerors and statesmen, kings and lords, 
 All who achieve success, yea, even those 
 The milch-cows of the past, who well revenge 
 Their kind by draining to themselves all store 
 Of milk and honey from the promised land, 
 And trample now like bulls of Bashan bold. 
 Wealth is the modern arbiter of all ; 
 All have their price, only bid high enough, 
 And bait the hook aright, and thou shalt catch 
 Men at thy will, and whoso gets him gold
 
 44 KOSMOS. [Act III. 
 
 Strikes at their source Ambition's secret springs. 
 
 Ambition is my purpose ; to inspire 
 
 Audacity to stretch, and grasp, and hold, 
 
 To make a name, a race, a dynasty ; 
 
 To build a stately edifice, so vast 
 
 That battlement, and spire, and dome shall rise, 
 
 And lord it o'er all meaner tenements. 
 
 For, as the sunlight smiles on mountain crests, 
 
 There lighting first, there ling'ring to the last, 
 
 So do I glorify pre-eminence. 
 
 And when I see a soul akin to mine, 
 
 Bent on success, by high Ambition fired, 
 
 Knowing no bounds save those of its own will, 
 
 I count it as my vassal, and within 
 
 That soul as in a mirror do I gaze 
 
 in mine own reflection, satisfied 
 With that fair semblance, worshipping Myself, 
 And in the darkest night I show the path 
 To him whose face is turned towards mine own. 
 And Light is still best emblem for the means 
 W hereby I urge the crowd to fresh attempts. 
 Self-preservation needs no outward help, 
 It comes by Nature, and the creature clasps 
 The nearest help instinctively by touch j 
 l'.ut when men act by reason, then they need 
 External aid to guide them in their choice. 
 For, as the sight to touch, so reason stands 
 To instinct : vain were keenest sense of sight
 
 Scene I.] KOSMOS. 45 
 
 Without the light to see by ; mine that light 
 Which I bestow at will. Look forth, and say, 
 What dost thou see? 
 
 Wal. What can I see, beside 
 
 The setting moon, strewing the sea with gems, 
 Right royal pathway, stretching from the verge 
 Of Ocean to our standpoint ? 
 
 Kos. On that path 
 
 Dost thou mark anything ? 
 
 Wal. On that bright wake 
 
 I see a fishing-boat, whose hull and mast 
 Stand forth so clear, that every rope and block 
 Are visible, although so far. 
 
 Kos. And all 
 
 The ships of all the navies in the world, 
 Lying beyond that track of light, could scarce 
 Divert thy gaze from yonder cockle-shell, 
 ( )n which I concentrate my influence. 
 'Tis thus that I accentuate men's thoughts 
 Turning them to my will — 
 
 Wal. One moment's grace. 
 
 I ever thought that reasoning was free 
 The balance of comparison between 
 Contrasted weights ; the process complex oft, 
 But still a question of degree, and lo ! 
 Thou callest it an arbitrary point, 
 1 Vtermined by the bias of thy mind, 
 What, then, is ire .lorn of the Will ?
 
 46 KOSMOS. [Act IIL 
 
 Kos. Free choice 
 
 Is true enough, apart from thought of ' self: ' 
 I do not care for problems in the air, 
 And only in so far as choice affects 
 Advantage personal, am I concerned. 
 But when Ambition wills, yet does not dare, 
 I stimulate faint hearts, and by my light 
 Mole-hills seem mountains, ever)- fancied slight 
 An injury, each fortune missed a 1< 
 Tinsel and beads, as gold and priceless gems ; 
 And SO 1 lire the mind to swift resolve, 
 And strife for dominance, and urge it on 
 Regardless of the cost, to victory. 
 
 W'al. One other word : I gather from thy speech, 
 In that thou sayest that thy light is cast 
 Sometime without, and sometime with intent. 
 That not thine own it is. Judge I aright? 
 
 Kos. What matters that to thee ? 
 
 U'til. I charge thee, speak 
 
 By virtue of this spell. [Shows the Ri 
 
 Kos. I cannot tell ; 
 
 But though it be derived from central sphere 
 Like moonlight from the sun, if not the King, 
 Vice-gerent am I with unbounded sway. 
 
 Wal. Yet one last word. Although thy heart is set 
 Chiefly upon the few, yet all mankind 
 Is moved in greater or in less degree 
 By this same influence of thine, to strife
 
 S( i si: I.] A'OSMOS. 
 
 47 
 
 And lust for conquest ? 
 
 Kos. Yea ! and in the days 
 
 When men were fewer, as it seems to me 
 My joys were greater. Well do I recall 
 One of my first crude essays in mine art. 
 Two brothers had contested some small point 
 Of preference, in which the younger gained. 
 The elder moodily retired to chafe 
 Under his disappointment. He to me 
 Ever did homage, gauging not his work 
 By silly notions as to abstract worth 
 (Which has no being save in foolish brains) 
 But by the profit which it brought himself. 
 It needed little help from me to show 
 How wrong the younger was, encroaching thus 
 Upon the rights of primogeniture. 
 But vain the elder's reason, and at length, 
 Bound to maintain supremacy, he slew 
 His brother. Never has my nature thrilled 
 In fuller unison with trumpet clang 
 Of triumph, though that call foretold the rise 
 Or fall of Empires, than with that hoarse shout 
 Of the lone victor in a desert World ! 
 
 // r al. And so of murderers thou wert the first ? 
 
 Kos. Why use that word ? Not that I care a jot 
 For terms ; the thing had to be done, 'twas clear 
 Such a divided house could never stand, 
 And Nature builds not upon shifting sands.
 
 48 A'OSMOS. [Act HI. 
 
 But trust not that the present age escapes 
 
 From charge of murder, though for sword and spear 
 
 It substitute the lever or the wheel. 
 
 You crowd men out of life as certainly 
 
 By taking from their mouths the chance of bread 
 
 As if you slew them. All domains of work 
 
 Are over-full, and whoso adds his mite 
 
 Of Capital or Labour to the glut, 
 
 Supplants some fellow-worker, and curtails 
 
 His span of life. It is not Bread you lack, 
 
 But Work wherewith to earn your share of Bread, 
 
 And each new birth involves a brother's death. 
 
 Wal. That may be so, but rather would I learn 
 Of good than evil. 
 
 Kos. I can do thee good, 
 
 And though I love thee not, on certain terms 
 1 may advantage thee. 
 
 Wal. Then name thy terms. 
 
 Kos. I can do nothing whilst thy talisman 
 Endues thee with control. I do not ask 
 For more than this — that till the break of day 
 By thy consent thy Ring shall lose its might ; 
 But I must warn thee, that this word once said, 
 It cannot be recalled. Be not afraid ; 
 I will not harm thee. 
 
 Wal. Till to-morrow's sun 
 
 I will that this my Ring forego its power. 
 
 K 3 that flashing- in the southern sky ?
 
 Scene I.] KOSMOS. 49 
 
 Wal. Only a falling star. 
 
 Kos. It is thine own. 
 
 Wal. If there were truth in omens, I might ask, 
 " What of thine ensign ?" See ! thy Moon has set. 
 
 Kos. Where'er I am is light. Behold thy Ring ! 
 
 Wal. Tis dim and clouded; all its beauty gone — 
 
 Kos. And virtue forfeit, by thine own consent. 
 Know surely — thou wilt ne'er see sun again 
 Unless thou do me homage. 
 
 Wal. What! a snare? 
 
 Kos. Nay ! little need that I lay snares for men 
 If I but leave them to themselves. My light 
 Withdrawn, they dream away their days in schemes 
 Utopian, with all the facts of life 
 Softened to fancies. Then the sleeper wakes 
 And wearies through the after-years, a drudge ; 
 Or calls me back, to find an empty house 
 Garnished with vain regrets for chances lost, 
 A wilderness of rank destructive aims, 
 Subversive instincts. For such growths as these 
 Mankind may thank themselves. 
 
 Enough of this, 
 Thy danger presses. Truly canst thou say 
 That thou hast found in me the cynosure 
 Of Nature, since to me point all her hints 
 Of any higher life than that of Man. 
 Say more — my light shall save thee ; by this proof 
 Of intervening mind, confess me — God. 
 
 E
 
 5o A'OSMOS. [A( i III 
 
 // al. What threatens me ? 
 
 A' An ill beyond thy ken. 
 
 But I can guide thy mental eye to see 
 Thy peril, by exciting de< 
 Intense suspi< ion, never knowing r< 
 Until the d i its lurking p] 
 
 Stands by my light 1 le quest 
 
 Without my guidance ; for a thous ind doors 
 Stand open to the grave. A sudden turn 
 
 it snap the thread of life, 
 Burn down thy dwelling, by some slight mischan 
 
 mingled with thy daily br< 
 Or murder stalk into thy room ; nay, le 
 That hidden weapon, lest perchance the luck 
 .1, and destroy thee ! 
 
 Wai. thanks. 
 
 Be sure that I will wat< h the h. i; 
 
 Hut never will 1 . the knee to th 
 
 . ■ 
 Well do I wot how ancient 1. ned 
 
 This bait of thine ; they trod the path to death 
 • tough knowing their imp doom, 
 
 • : would they stoop to earn repric . 
 
 king life a very hell of doubt, 
 ] >; n (precious wares, indeed, 
 
 lor Mind to deal in;, turning friends to foes, 
 Kindr pers, and the breath of life 
 
 foul miasma. Though no hero I,
 
 Bohnb I ] A'OSMOS. 51 
 
 J am not less than man. Look to thyself: 
 I hou boastest immortality ; that boast 
 Is vain : the dead world by thy side, thy Moon, 
 Should teach thee better. Kre thy inner self 
 Began to live, hers had begun to die. 
 
 ■ n thou wilt pass thy zenith ; then success 
 Will turn to failure, each new step a task 
 For wizards, holding water in a sieve, 
 Or twisting sand-ropes, till a dying World 
 ro Stone thou turnest, Spirit! know thy shaft 
 Has overshot the mark. It is not death 
 I dread, but life not fit to welcome death. 
 And, though this soul of mine be sorely stained 
 With sin, and unprepared, it ne'er could stand 
 More ready for its doom, than when it spurns 
 Thee and thy gifts. I et thee to thy place ! 
 
 Kos. If thou wilt not be guided by my lamp, 
 In thine own light thou standest 
 
 //'<//. I have heard 
 
 That put another way. 
 
 A' How so ? 
 
 U\il. Why, thus- 
 
 One said, " (let thee behind me. Satan.'' 
 
 Kos. Fool ! 
 
 END OF ACT III.
 
 -- 
 
 KOSMOS. [Act IV. 
 
 ACT IV. 
 QUI TOLLIS. 
 Scene I. — The Sea. 
 Kos. " A (lying World ! " Yea ! I am waxing old 
 .1 hese mortals have a knack of putting things) 
 And well I know the signs of coming age, 
 
 nk spaces in my being, dead alike 
 I o take or give impression. Strange, that Lite. 
 The flood, should cast upon the beach of Time 
 1 discordant natures, foreign to mine own ; 
 And then, thi t Death, the ebb which draws the I 
 ( )t" all existence seawards to myselt. 
 Should fail to harvest these, and only glean 
 Their em] Us ! Tis then I suffer loss 
 
 Irreparable. Is it thus my Foe 
 Will sap the fulness of my inner life 
 by degradation, till again I live 
 Unmindful of the future, and the past, 
 As in the long ago when living forms 
 Evolved from matter ? That, indeed, were Death
 
 1.1 A'OSJfOS. 
 
 3J 
 
 Once having thought, to lose the gift of Mind ; 
 
 To feel, but not to know that I have felt ! 
 
 A terror seizes me, when I recall 
 
 How in the faint grey glimmer of life's dawn 
 
 My soul vibrated to an influence 
 
 Too deep for sound ; and yet I surely heard 
 
 A cry, as of a dying agony ; 
 
 But all absorbing was the sweet young life 
 
 Of Nature, and I heeded not for joy. 
 
 Silent for ever is the voire that thrilled 
 Across the void, yet now it tells my doom. 
 How, with Her last faint sigh, the breath of life 
 Passed from all creatures that drew nurture sweet 
 From Her fair bosom, leaving barren hills. 
 Her outward life remains, and joy in sense ; 
 But never more within will Thought inspire 
 My gentle Handmaid, who illumines night 
 With such soft glamour, that Her silver sheen 
 Outvies the glitter of the golden Sun. 
 
 Shall I, too, cry for help, and cry in vain ? 
 
 1, who have never helped a failing life : 
 
 Why should I ? Nature to severest proof 
 
 Puts all things ; choosing that which stands the test, 
 
 The rest rejecting ; and a thousand paths 
 
 Lead on to Failure ; to Success but one. 
 
 That one alone is ' right,' the many ' wrong.'
 
 54 KOSMOS. [Act IV. 
 
 Yet in man's jargon 'right,' and 'wrong' convey 
 Another meaning, and methinks I erred 
 In giving my Opponent vantage ground 
 Whereon to plant his ensign. Had I left 
 Mankind unbiased by intense desire 
 
 mental progress, till misfortune proved 
 Itself a natural result of life, 
 The complement of Fortune ; then my sway 
 Had never known division. But too soon 
 1 pressed the thirst for knowledge ; for, behold ! 
 It^ fruit once tasted, truly bitter sweet 
 Man deemed it, linking to delight unknown 
 The unknown source of sorrow. Then I saw 
 A wall of separation rise betwixt 
 
 le part of human nature, and myself, 
 d o'er that fortress wall there floated free 
 An ensign not mine own, by whose de\ 
 1 recognized an Enemy, and knew 
 That evermore our battle-ground must be 
 The soul of Man, fair held of destiny. 
 
 Two rival standards lord it over Man. 
 Duty and Interest (the latter mine, 
 My Foe's the former) claim the right to rule. 
 Mine was the right : my ensigns wide and far 
 Floated to breeze of Fortune. By success 
 The right divine of kings, I held my sway. 
 What token had mine Enemy ? A dream,
 
 Scene I.] KOSMOS. 55 
 
 A shadow unsubstantial as a breath. 
 
 Then to the proof our hostile claims I urged. 
 
 On the unknown my Rival took his stand. 
 
 " Thine be it-," I exclaimed; "be mine the known. 
 
 That narrow streak illumined by the light 
 
 Of Knowledge ; all the dreary waste beyond 
 
 In outer darkness lying, void of trust, 
 
 And peopled by Suspicion." Soon as said 
 
 The unknown world assumed relationship, 
 
 Passing for touch of Nature, making kin 
 
 To Man, each tree and stone, sun, wind and storm, 
 
 All outward forms, and even phantoms born 
 
 Of night ; the whole in one Chimera blent, 
 
 And animate with purpose preconceived 
 
 To punish in the body, acts of mind ! 
 
 Then Magic ruled, and whoso dared to play 
 
 On human nature, on the weak by force, 
 
 Or on the strong by artifice, was great ; 
 
 Success remaining final test of right, 
 
 My standard, to whose emblem man bowed down 
 
 And thus I conquered. Then mine Enemy 
 
 ( ailed upon Reason to dispel the mists 
 
 Of Superstition, blotting out His claim 
 
 Absorbed by Nature. But again His right 
 
 I challenged. Not for me a middle course, 
 
 Or all, or none ; when Animism loosed 
 
 Its hold on man, by Reason overthown, 
 
 I cried, " Thou claimest knowledge ; have thy will ! "
 
 $6 KOSMOS. [Act IV. 
 
 I hen testing Reason by Ambition's light, 
 I sought its limits ; lo ! no bounds it knew, 
 Spanning the whole horizon with its rays. 
 Where all before was dark, now all was light, 
 Xo trace of phantom world and spirit life : 
 The unknown island, like Atlantis, lost, 
 Leaving do place for my Opponent's throne. 
 Nor care I if with Him I seem to fall, 
 Mankind no more believing in my life; 
 I or this my gain. No <iod but self they see, 
 And worshipping themselves they worship Me. 
 
 Vet, spite of victories, I suffer loss, 
 My conquests only bring me back mine own, 
 1 lis triumphs rob me of myself The end, 
 Though infinitely distant, still must come, 
 W hen tried by my own standard of suc< i 
 I fail, and lose myself in nothingness. 
 
 [Exit i 
 
 3 m II. — The Downs. 
 
 Enter Kos.mos. 
 
 A s. I know not if the virtue of his Ring 
 Compel my steps, or whether new-born fears 
 And loneliness unnerve me, that I crave 
 Companionship and converse — human needs.
 
 Scene [I.] KOSMOS. 57 
 
 An evil prophet is this mortal : still, 
 Whate'er his answer, question him I will. 
 
 Enter Walter {unconscious of K ' presence, an,/ 
 
 remaining so to the end). 
 
 W'al. I cannot bring myself to think of Death 
 And Judgment, but my fancy icily strays 
 To Kosmos, and the bond uniting us. 
 For bound we are. though this kaleidoscope 
 Of coloured patchwork, talismanic spell 
 And Spirit presence, be an empty dream 
 Born of my own imagining, no sign 
 Remaining, save this worthless piece of glass. 
 It matters not : though Kosmos never \. 
 He represents reality. In him 
 I see personified a mental force 
 Acting within myself, yet not myself. 
 But common to mankind, which shares control 
 ( >ver my being. In the slackened tide 
 betwixt the ebbing night and flowing day, 
 The gist of life presents itself unsought, 
 And stays unbidden : like the voice of Time, 
 Unheard amidst the whirligig of day. 
 To sleepless ears its deep recurrent tone 
 Proclaims a purpose stronger than our own. 
 
 Kos. {vainly trying to attract Walter's attention). 
 
 He sees me not, nor hears me. Though the 
 
 spell
 
 KOSMOS. [Act IV. 
 
 1 !c loosed, it breaks not ; but some foreign force 
 From access and from insight bars his heart, 
 Thwarting my influence. His form and speech 
 To me are known, unknown are mine to him ; 
 And fast around him close the toils of Fate, 
 His need — my help — for ever separate. 
 
 ll'al. The faculties which Kosmos shares with Man 
 Are Enterprise and Vigilance, the arms 
 Wherewith the mind equips itself for war. 
 These arms he ever strengthens with intent 
 For more endurance; and were all mankind 
 ( !ast in one mould, such benefit for one 
 Were good for all. Yet different are men, 
 formed of diversities ; of natures good 
 h in itself, of combinations good 
 h in its person, but untimely change 
 ( >r disproportion alters ' right ' to ' \ 
 Too little Prudence fosters Negligence; 
 Too much, Suspicion ; harder still to steer 
 Betwixt Ambition and Indifference. 
 Ambition and Suspicion are the ends 
 Which Kosmos prompts to — errors of excess; 
 For with the mind he deals as Nature works 
 On structure, making good defective aims. 
 And still, although he drives us to extremes, 
 Inducing ill, perchance he does us wrong 
 Unwittingly; for evil might arise
 
 Scexk III KOSMOS. 59 
 
 From good, through disproportion of the mind 
 
 In man. By light of nature Kosmos works, 
 
 And Nature knows no evil in excess. 
 
 She says too much, a wilderness of lies, 
 
 Enacted for deception, turns to farce 
 
 The tragedy of life ; she seeks too much, 
 
 Seizing or stealing, as occasion serves; 
 
 She loves too much, transported by desire; 
 
 She hates too much, and dyes her steps with blood. 
 
 And yet, methinks, without this added force, 
 
 To force indwelling, every chance defect 
 
 W i.uld reproduce itself. Xo standing still 
 
 Is possible to Nature : move she must, 
 
 Forwards or backwards ; her excess is right. 
 
 But when such impulse is applied to Mind 
 
 It overstrains the limits which divide 
 
 'Self from surroundings, and delivers Man 
 
 A prey to passion. Kosmos gives the cue 
 
 From Nature, not from Mind, and when he prompts 
 
 To self-completion, then he counsels well ; 
 
 But when he urges us beyond the verge 
 
 Where self-restraint is possible, to wastes 
 
 Of self-indulgence where we lose ourselves, 
 
 He guides us ill. Yet Kosmos cannot see 
 
 The secret of our hearts. Unknown to him, 
 
 Or Nature, is the self-denying force 
 
 Of duty — an absurdity in words, 
 
 Incapable of proof; for how can Self
 
 60 KOSMOS. [Act [V. 
 
 1 >eny itself? And so cross-aims begin, 
 Hardest of warfare on uncertain ground 
 Conscience is sure, but has no proof to show; 
 □ prove, but KLosmos cannot kn 
 Kos. Always the same refrain of 'right and 
 wroi 
 Or 'good and evil ;' yet I ks me fair, 
 
 Although he lo I — mot than tb 
 
 Who call me " tempt. sooth ; 
 
 tough tem . putting to the proof, 
 
 Were not the fur. man wi 
 
 at on perfection. Rightly does hejudj 
 That " tint urdity," unknown 
 
 ■ tire on force, 
 
 .in limit »d, 
 
 >nd them evil S this so sure? 
 
 1 run m round my central sphere, 
 
 Unbiased by attr Is or from, 
 
 re they. ^i I 1 eith< I th 
 
 tempt me from my path, then good must turn 
 eviL \ r me that this my coi: 
 
 i shaped by instinct Did I pause to think 
 Of ' why,' and balance impulses opposed 
 Attractive and repulsive, then, perplexed 
 Betwixt two 'w: I scarce could keep the 
 
 'right. - 
 N j rial-, like their World, must move 
 
 Within due limits, but, unlike myself,
 
 Sim H.] KOSMOS. 6 1 
 
 Must choose their path, though ever I invite 
 Further extension, then some strong control 
 Should check this impulse, using me as foil, 
 Granting me licence to develop Mind, 
 
 Far for good ; no farther, lest it turn 
 viL Veu ! and even in my life, 
 In Nature, are there not communities 
 United 1))- self-sacrifice? strange 
 
 That th< aid lie so lowly in the scale 
 
 < If Structure, that 1 leave them to them 
 Is this the reason why so well they thrive? 
 Pshaw : I am doting. These are Natures \\<>rks — 
 Insects, not men — and men le themseh 
 
 ying Nature! Animals survive 
 
 adaptation of themselves, but Mind 
 Adapts its own surroundings to itself. 
 Bent upon Empire. Evil days, forsooth ! 
 With falling, not with rising Empire fraught, 
 If men should shift their standpoint of suc< 
 From Dominance to Tolerance; if rest 
 From strife were all that self-indulgence sought, 
 
 I mastery ; if Kosmos once began 
 To mould mankind to Fate, not Fate to Man. 
 
 ll\il. If self-indulgence, through our own defect 
 Or Kosmos' urging, make the sum of wrong, 
 Then sinfulness lies not in special act, 
 But in itself, an ill beyond the good, 
 Abuse of means, contrasted with their use.
 
 SMOS. [A< i l\ 
 
 And I have sinned, who thought my sins so light, 
 re errors, arrow- shot the mark, 
 
 Aims misdire< jht, 
 
 imilar abandonment i 
 that which culminate- in sacrifii 
 
 And when no retribul oe in kind 
 
 l . wrong coi t the wror tned — 
 
 Made good. ' , Godl my pui me, 
 
 \ I through my infuln* 
 
 mantle is rent. 
 
 1 own the justii e of my ] jnt 
 
 [Exeunt </• 
 
 111. -In r te. I 
 
 sir. 
 
 \\ w i I 
 
 WaL Where am I ? 1 
 ■ burning < hai 
 id after death the jud Wel< ome light ! 
 
 iship : not ;. 
 
 to bind 
 My >oul to death, or loosen it to 1 
 
 :rnal. Who 1 ratch ? 
 
 Surely some poor unfortunate, whose heart 
 Seeks solace from the night and loneliness. 
 
 [Music from within.
 
 .: 1 1 1.] KOSMOS. 63 
 
 Ah ! now I know : only a master's hand 
 
 Could render thus the world-familiar theme 
 
 ( )f human claim on love and death Divine. 
 
 The Miserefe sobs itself to 
 
 l t in the Agnus, cradled with 1 
 
 By gentle I ht and tender touch 
 
 Of new born sorrow, soothing it to rest \Mnsu . 
 
 No aew-born sorrow 1 hah" a life 
 
 I ortune crowned his cup 
 With best of 1 rife and children fair. 
 
 Then stricken with the fever blast, they sl> 
 But he awoke to find himself alone. 
 There, in the I m-lit hull, 
 
 I >ee him now, a | y-haired man, 
 
 With figure slightlj . less fr< 
 
 Than tli ident. Witli his fellow-men 
 
 Small converse holds he, save when t: 
 Or children 1 »ull his hearl s — all his life 
 
 m musi . When his trembling hands 
 Res! on the key-board, youth and hope return, 
 Renewing kinship with hi- 1 dead. 
 
 Will he not play again ? He seems to seek 
 Some treasure; now he finds it; 'tis a song — 
 \ ! for he leaves the organ, coming forth 
 1 i woo tl. Though stars their aid deny, 
 
 He shall at least have human sympathy.
 
 S.UOS. A 
 
 ' /;/. 
 I had ] 
 
 And had ith in ' 
 
 When a vision ( arae to my a< hi: 
 In I the n: 
 
 tl 
 
 vn, 
 \n : I from th< 
 
 ■ 
 
 Man might n d that f.i 
 
 I.ik unlit S 
 
 rth, 
 
 .. . 
 
 I 
 
 In th uth wi; 
 
 ■ the throne of the K I . 
 
 And the t: from the Worlds, 
 
 As the '• niverse 
 
 I hymned throng. 

 
 m.] KOSMOS. 
 
 A song of endless design, 
 Of infinite care over all, 
 a Hand from whose grasp there is no i 
 As cither tOO great 01 ' .iall. 
 
 The fall of a worn-out Sun, 
 The rise of a System in 
 The birth or death of some transient germ 
 Too tiny for - » to tra< . 
 
 No break in the chain without end, 
 lit, DOr hurry, n<>r | 
 The present a link between future 
 The result renewing the cat; 
 
 Then my soul sank under the weight, 
 As my eyes with - dim, 
 
 And my i w dull with th< rain 
 
 the ever-jubilant hymn. 
 
 Who could bear the burden of Earth? 
 Vet .1 single drop from the sea 
 Were more, compared with the ocean's depths, 
 Than this Earth to Infinity ! 
 
 And though every step be advance, 
 Yet the Spirit of Progress saith, 
 " I crown success, but to those who fail, 
 I bring pain and sorrow and death."
 
 A'OSMOS. I A i IV 
 
 iy ! surely the theme has changed 
 To a sweet outpouring of sound, 
 ( >ld memories rising anew from the past, 
 As springs well up from the ground? 
 
 •• Who bearest the weight of the World," 
 And I felt no longer alone, 
 For the face of one who bends over his dead, 
 Was the face of Him un the throne. 
 
 It was but for a lightning's flash ; 
 It passed like the breath of the wind. 
 But it told me that all the misfortunes of Earth 
 Are known to the Infinite Mind. 
 
 VTes ' known a-, we feel them ourselves, 
 \ • mere looking on at our strife, 
 but sorrow and death, from beginnings of Time, 
 ith pleasure and life. 
 
 •• Who bearest the sins of the World," 
 That word, ere its echo was gone, 
 '. told why his Master's last night with His own 
 W. than a life to St John. 
 
 Ah ! if through my fatherly care, 
 Some creature its being had known ; 
 aid I comfort myself, and remain content, 
 To leave it to suffer alone ?
 
 Bcbn] III] KOSMOS. 67 
 
 Could I rest for that pitiful <, 
 And surely the Nature Divine 
 Out fathoms in love as in wisdom and might 
 The uttermost measure of mine ? 
 
 " Who bearest," "who takest away," 
 Not here did the conflict begin, 
 But or ever the Worlds there was present with God 
 Self-sacrifice offered for sin. 
 
 Nor here shall it end. Not estranged 
 e meet, who were parted on earth, 
 Though wounded and maimed in the battle to death, 
 Though failing the promise of birth. 
 
 Though our lives be decades of toil, 
 Or pass while as children we play, 
 The soul that survives is the soul at its best, 
 If sin has been taken away. 
 
 Though never attaining its strength, 
 Though worsted and soiled in the fight, 
 \ it the ' is ' but the ' might be ' is truly the soul 
 That enters the Kingdom of Light 
 
 *r - 
 
 When greeting my loved ones above, 
 When I clasp my wife to my breast, 
 R e shall welcome the life that was broken on earth, 
 And joy — that its breaking was blest.
 
 68 KOSMOS. [Act IV. 
 
 Not won by ourselves is that life, 
 Nor kept save with infinite pain, 
 As His Spirit for ever unceasingly strives 
 To guard us from erring again. 
 
 Do birds know the way across seas ? 
 Tis Nature directs them aright. 
 Could stars track their path through the meaning- 
 less void 
 By clearness of reason or sight ? 
 
 Their Guide is our own. We shall find 
 The path in its seeming so dim, 
 Now ' so easy to miss,' then ' so certain to keep,' 
 By instinct unerring from Him. 
 
 Each thinks that the measureless waste 
 Before him has never been trod : 
 We are seeking for truth, but each wearisome step 
 Is bringing us nearer to God. 
 
 Shall we find Him ? The vision had fled, 
 Dark clouds rolling down from above, 
 As the wave of regret swept my sorrowful soul 
 Away from the Infinite Love. 
 
 Kos. Have I been blind through all the lapse of 
 years 
 In not perceiving that to those who climb
 
 Scene III.] KOSMOS. 69 
 
 Seeking the summit of a mountain range, 
 Though lofty rise the crests of lesser heights, 
 They lead no further, but the weary steps 
 Must turn descending, taking lower ground, 
 Lower, yet nearer to the topmost peak ? 
 'Tis thus in Nature ; not the highest form 
 Chief of his clan, most perfect of his race 
 By special adaptation, marks the course 
 Of further progress through development. 
 That track he left to gain his present height, 
 But from the level whence the upward paths 
 Diverge, and choice is free, a fresh ascent 
 Lies open to the higher peaks beyond — 
 My empire totters. Must I own defeat ? 
 Defeat in Life ; that those whose steps are turned 
 From toiling towards the summit of success 
 My standpoint, free themselves for nobler aims ? 
 Defeat in Death j that then the twisted thread 
 Spun earthwards, proves no vesture, but a shroud, 
 The outcome of a lower life, prepared 
 To shield the spirit ere its wings are formed ; 
 Then to be broken, while the soul escapes, 
 Bursting the bonds that seemed to make it mine, 
 Defrauding me of this my lawful prize ? 
 Yet, were the spirit judged by what it 'is,' 
 Full seldom would its wings be pruned for flight. 
 Either the web that man has spun in life 
 Would lack protective strength to shield the soul
 
 -o AVSA/OS. [A( t W. 
 
 Or, having strength, would prove a prison-house, 
 T 'ut for mine Enemy. He either lends 
 His strength to weakness, turning ' is ' to ' might, 
 ' >r rends in twain the bond that proves my right. 
 
 '. Thrice blessed seed of sorrow ! bearing fruit 
 In words which link the sacrificial act 
 With its eternal sacrificial thought 
 That God would not be good, did He not give, 
 That Love would not be life, did it not lose. 
 
 roof of God I need than this 
 That of all natures, one alone I deem 
 
 thy of worship. He - ires himself 
 
 ely and gladly, seeking not return : 
 U'ho silent s in to take the post 
 
 holding life and fortune cheap ; 
 who lays down all pride of social place, 
 Sharing the common burden : who forbears 
 : he who dares to turn his back 
 rmed treachery ; who throws his cloak 
 . irtue o'er another's sin ; whose life 
 Is one long sacrifice of all the world 
 
 nts worth the winning. Show me such an one 
 ' how unlike the picture Kosmos drew) 
 And by the measure of his gifts to men 
 
 heart will own how like he is to God 
 'A'ho giveth all. Ay ! even though the flesh 
 Prove false through weakness, though the faith that 
 urged 

 
 rc III.] KOSMOS. 71 
 
 To daring, shrink and leave the soul to drown 
 Beneath the waves it tempted. Though no hand 
 Be stretched to save, and men shall say, " Twice l 
 First for discarding well-proved rules of life, 
 And then for seeking to retrace his steps 
 Too late for safety." Though the Lord consent 
 That Kosmos sift the wheat till not a grain 
 Be left to bear the blessed hope of life 
 Immortal. Yea ! though hard experience 
 Whose quest of torture puts ideas to proof 
 Of stern reality, with rack and screw, 
 Bidding us own no higher life than self, 
 Should from this body wring the bitter cry 
 ( )f recantation, disavowing God. 
 But give me respite. Then, beneath my breath, 
 This whisper shall be added, " Still He lives," 
 Nay ! prove Him but a dream. Then welcome 
 
 dreams 
 Truer than waking ! Make the word of God 
 A lie. Oh ! then for ever let me lie. 
 Such dreams, such falsehood, make men fit to die ! 
 
 END OF ACT IV.
 
 72 KOSMOS. [Act V 
 
 ACT V. 
 
 IN EXCELSIS. 
 Scene I. — A room in Walter's house. 
 
 Enter Walter. 
 
 Wal. A letter on my table ! from my friend. 
 What says he ? " Only just a hurried line 
 To tell you that the point on which we touched 
 This afternoon — the principle of gain 
 By measured steps surmounting loss, which marks 
 Organic progress — finds its analogue 
 In good outliving evil in the soul. 
 Sooner or later we must come to this : 
 That in the highest processes of thought, 
 Evil, though indispensable to good 
 As loss to gain, shall only be a sign 
 The ' minus ' never realized. Be this 
 Emblem of evil, now a bitter pang, 
 Cruel subtraction, pleasure lost in pain, 
 Life quenched in death, yet in the far-off time
 
 Scene I.] A'OS.UOS. 
 
 Evil shall serve its purpose, not in act, 
 
 Only as symbol, aiding us to work 
 
 Our sum of Knowledge. Then in memory 
 
 Purged of its grossness, ' wrong ' shall be a word 
 
 Keeping us from the deed ; contrasted thought 
 
 Good, evermore, but Evil, less than naught." 
 
 Thanks, good Professor; but my time has passed 
 
 For subtleties. Too soon the cold wan sky 
 
 Will crimson with the life-blood of the day, 
 
 And by that light I see a cold wan face 
 
 With crimson stained, and know it for mine own, 
 
 Not heed not for my strength of present life. 
 
 Too swiftly falls the blow : I scarcely feel 
 
 That I myself am stricken, looking on 
 
 With far-off eyes upon a stranger's fate. 
 
 The hand of Death will clutch me ere I shrink 
 
 And thought will fail before I learn to think. 
 
 Enter Kos.mos. 
 
 Down ! Kaiser, down ! What ails the dog to-night ? 
 They say dumb animals can augur death. 
 What dreaded presence makes thee fondle close, 
 Thy huge paws resting on my knee, thine eyes 
 Fixed and distended, all thy shaggy crest 
 Bristled with terror ? Best that we prepare 
 Our arms. \Drawing his revolver. 
 
 Now, Kaiser, thou and I could give
 
 A'OSJ/OS. [Act \ 
 
 \ good account of any lurking foe 
 Venturing on this mu/zle, and thine own. 
 
 very nook and comer have I searched 
 Finding no sign of danger. Thou shalt live 
 I '■> love another master, as of old 
 Thou lived'st to 1 entler hand than mini . 
 
 Loved for that memory. Lie close and still ; 
 It" tremble now for coming ill. 
 
 table. 
 till linger where my doubts began. 
 When, in the if the World, 
 
 I found no proof of over-ruling Mind. 
 Mankind and Nature seeming self-evolved. 
 
 11 I know that, were my fate rev 
 Were 1 to live my life like other men, 
 My soul would faint fol evidence of Cod 
 
 «d emotion. Daily cares demand 
 Some shield against the wear and tear of fa 
 Whose constant fretti: .way belief 
 
 \s clii ipped by waters. 
 
 A" Aye ! these fa 
 
 \re fatal to your fancies. When the pu 
 ws feeble and the mental impetus 
 ms to slacken, then your vaunted faith 
 In unrealities gives way to sight. 
 While your delusion lasts you talk like Gods 
 Above the laws of Nature. Fain to fly, 
 Your first adventure brings you down to earth.
 
 - ENi I ] A'OSMOS. 75 
 
 The thousand trivialities of life, 
 
 Your hopes, your fears, your need of daily bread, 
 
 Dispel illusions. When you solace seek 
 
 For bitter memories, devising schemes 
 
 Of over-ruling law, to prove your loss 
 
 tep towards nobler ends, you look around 
 And see that everywhere the men who lose 
 
 through their own default. One hint of mine 
 I ays bare the naked truth : "Mistakes, like yours." 
 Your hopes are vain, your past has died, the dead 
 Risi Jier lav 
 
 Than that of Nature proven by success. 
 She owns no Lord but Me; the test of facts 
 Disproves my Rival's claim. 
 
 Wal. I motion thrills 
 
 The soul like melody with words unsaid, 
 " Notes unexpressive." How can music vie 
 With sound articulate or sight distinct ? 
 • rreat God ! and was it then for this that Love 
 • Was crystallized in words — that men should walk 
 sight when faith is weakest — that the call 
 Incentive should through Holy Writ be linked 
 I o living memories ? 
 
 A' There spake my Foe, 
 
 L'nmindful that my tongue is free to gloss 
 His text and turn it to my will. 
 
 Wal. The World 
 
 Is still the same, His word can know no change ;
 
 His day should h r own. 
 
 Ah me ! what but a 
 
 11 • ; men, 
 
 The World I i the w 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 ■ 
 
 A' •■ K 
 
 •nt of ill ! I 
 Mel 
 
 i 
 
 . 
 
 A' 
 
 I 
 
 ;ht 
 
 How can 
 
 I . wl 
 
 Jd ] 
 
 • 
 
 jrere n. 
 \ ut lim: 
 
 1 an anxious mothei 
 
 : sickly children ? N ;>ose this chan
 
 Bcexi l.| AW.l/a?. 
 
 I in myself, the World transformed 
 
 By social : >d 
 
 Workii up th< 
 
 fice of thci N ire framed 
 
 isition. Would that level pi 
 
 fair in unif fe 
 
 varied ' rich in light and shade. 
 
 iblime 
 
 ■id. ( )r were thi 
 Were happines dl the World, 
 
 kind by levelling extrem 
 
 nue 1": 
 
 lower : 
 
 Untrammelled by 
 
 And farl the wi 
 
 \ 
 
 f unfit: 1 : pla< e 
 
 t )f natural selc> tion. 
 
 Walti th : 
 
 Thy wry folly proves thy parent 
 More bent upon the future of the World 
 Than on thine own. The \\ n guid 
 
 aving this ; i ill unsolved to men. 
 
 onomists, philosopher 
 True princes of the Mind, When these can pi 
 Their answer by continued happiness 
 Void of declension, then, but not till then, 
 Will Kosmos change his Nature.
 
 78 KOSMOS. [Act \ 
 
 Dark and dread 
 The night is closing round thee. Towards the da\ 
 Choose thine own path ; the World knows not the 
 Way. \Exeunt ambo. 
 
 Scene II. — Walter's study. 
 
 WaL Yes ! I am ready, I have looked my last 
 On Felix, little dreaming in his sleep 
 Of coming sorrow. Time enough for dreams 
 When sorrow cometh. When the World is full 
 To overflowing, then will sleep be best 
 
 Why am I always harping on one string, 
 
 < )r wherefore vex myself about the World; 
 
 Save that the World is naught but 'self writ large. 
 The same drear facts encompassing like seas 
 Nature and Human Nature, Earth and Man? 
 An age there was, when in the seething mass 
 
 < >f fervid elements, ere land took shape, 
 No place was found for any living germ. 
 
 \n age must come, when seas shall be no more, 
 \nd cold dull stone enshrine each lifeless form. 
 
 Impossible is Life, the source and end 
 
 Of personality ; its secret springs 
 
 Unknown, untraceable, and yet it is. 
 
 A dark and gloomy sea encircles Man, 
 
 The sea of Death that gains the world for self
 
 Scene II.] KOSMOS. 79 
 
 Gulfing the promise of eternal life, 
 
 The Life which gives and loses all for Love. 
 
 Full easily we prove this Love away, 
 
 Tracing it backwards to a blind desire, 
 
 Or forwards to enlightened selfishness. 
 
 Philanthropy is nothing but a name 
 
 For outcome of conflicting interests, 
 
 Survival of the aims which best ensure 
 
 The firmest basis for the social scheme ; 
 
 Impossible is Love, and yet it is. 
 
 So Love, like Life, is borrowed, not possessed, 
 
 A passing guest, entreated for a while, 
 
 A miracle so contrary to sense 
 
 That, looking to the origin of things, 
 
 We certainly affirm, " It never was ; " 
 
 And, searching through the future, we predict 
 
 " It never shall be." Yet this sojourner, 
 
 Haply this angel welcomed unawares, 
 
 Whilst present with us, still submits to law, 
 
 Bound to the ' possible ' whose terms confine 
 
 Our small horizon. Then the spirit frets 
 
 Against the iron laws that bar its cage, 
 
 Striving to break its chains, though closest ties 
 
 To all that makes this earthly mansion fair : 
 
 The Letter kills, the Spirit giveth life. 
 
 Free is the Spirit ; bind it to the Law, 
 Proving its presence, holding it in chains,
 
 So KOSMOS. [A i V 
 
 Like breath it passes. ' That we thought was Love 
 
 Was naught but impulse. All that seemed Divine 
 
 Was only natural, the cause unknown, 
 
 The facts not well reported.' In the World 
 
 We see that failure sometimes breeds success, 
 
 Turning our steps to more propitious fields ; 
 
 ' Such failure is but seeming, not in truth ; ' 
 
 We feel that faith may surer prove than sight ; 
 
 'Thus men by night have safely traversed paths 
 
 By day impassable fur dangers seen ;' 
 
 We watch how interweaving of our lives 
 
 Represses evil I stifles good.' 
 
 All this is hut the commonplace of life 
 
 Fruit of experience, to commonplace 
 
 Turning our aspirations. 
 
 Is it true ? 
 True, but misleading ; only half the truth. 
 Our definitions kill us. Day by day 
 Foreknowledge of results pollutes the sprn 
 Of living water ; blessings traced to laws 
 Becoming curses. " Charity foreseen 
 Serves but to pauperize : our acts of grace 
 From rich to poor, are taken by the crowd 
 As sops for Cerberus — our crying wrongs 
 May cry for ever, till the people rise 
 Frighting the rich, and thus secure Reform 
 Through fear of Revolution." This the voice 
 Of Reason prophesying things to come
 
 Scene II.] KOSMOS. Si 
 
 From knowledge of the past. An evil word 
 She gives the future. 
 
 Keener grows the fight 
 For work. No work for those who fail to bear 
 Contracted leisure, longer hours of toil, 
 More scanty wages. Slavery returns 
 In fact though not in name ; from time to time, 
 Invention quickened breeds more hopeless glut ; 
 Thrift becomes penury ; abiding fear 
 Of aught that checks the loom, the forge, the mine. 
 Insists on peace, whatever be its shame, 
 Yet keeps an armed watch to guard the hive 
 Whose heaped-up wealth shows greater from the depth 
 Of poor surroundings. Terror for the rich 
 By day, by night ; though swarms of hangers-on 
 To luxury, perfect the arts of life, 
 Subverting nature. For the poor, Desire, 
 Unchecked by sentiment, enhanced by sense 
 Of naught to lose, and everything to gain. 
 The end, though oft delayed, must come at last 
 Through cruel education, making men 
 Strong and enduring, fertile in resource, 
 A hard, exacting, ruthless, selfish World. 
 
 Yet try another Fate. The code of laws 
 Suppose completed, perfect in its scheme 
 Of endless detail, warding off extremes, 
 Seeking equality, restricting press 
 Of competition, giving each his share 
 
 G
 
 S2 A'OSMOS. . : V. 
 
 Of bread, and work, and leisure, making Earth 
 The paradise of labour — still there comes 
 A future crowd to make this plenty, need ; 
 Till checked by arts protective, Dead Sea fruit-, 
 Of false philosophy, the mean is reached, 
 The equilibrium of stagnant life, 
 An idle, weak, yet not less selfish World. 
 
 Perish the thought ! our boasted truths are false. 
 
 Blind guides to blind conclusions; past the ken 
 
 Of Egoist or Altruist, there lie 
 
 The world-wide issues of competing laws, 
 
 For he who looks upon the two extremes 
 
 The individual and social ends 
 
 Whose ups and downs in sequence alternate, 
 
 Is looking not on conflict but on force; 
 
 The ups and downs that turn the wheel of life 
 
 By balanced contrariety. 'Tis thus 
 
 The rule of Kosmos passes : not for one 
 
 Who brooks no loss, to know when loss is good 
 
 For him who loses as for him who gains. 
 
 Yet, blind and grasping, in his fall he brings 
 
 ( )ur temple with him ; where his empire fails 
 
 No God shall reign. He prompts us to exclaim 
 
 " The scheme of laws that regulates the World 
 
 Is self-adjusting like the motive power 
 
 That works our engines ; higher life is none 
 
 Than that of Man."
 
 Scene II.] KOSMOS. 8 
 
 j 
 
 O lying death ! Nor World, 
 Nor Man is shaped by self-adapting force. 
 No scheme was ever framed to work itself, 
 To make, to judge, to substitute its laws. 
 We need an Arbiter (and some would say 
 The Son of Man is such a Judge) to choose 
 The opportunity, to use — so far 
 The selfish instinct for development, 
 Promoting Men, no farther lest the proof 
 Of 'right ' be lost in that we wish — so far, 
 In turn, the social instinct making Man 
 More equal, but no farther lest we lose 
 The test of 'right' in that which others think. 
 And on this equipoise of interests 
 Fixed against evil, free for higher good, 
 Not unprogressive like its fabled type 
 Of earth repelling heaven, heaven earth, 
 Shall rest the future of the perfect World. 
 
 [Lamp begins to flicker. 
 , Is this Utopia impossible — 
 This miracle, for miracle it needs 
 To hold by law, yet overrule the law ? 
 No ! for we see that daily in ourselves 
 We exercise Free-will, despite of proof 
 That every action has specific cause. 
 Free-will is nothing short of miracle, 
 So oft-repeated that we miss its force, 
 Just as we miss in life, when reproduced,
 
 A'OSA/OS. [A( V 
 
 The primal miracle from whence it springs. 
 
 Free-will, like Life, betrays its foreign source, 
 
 Denoting personality in Mind, 
 
 And, prove or prove it not, the thought will live 
 
 That men are persons, and that all which springs 
 
 From personality defies the test 
 
 Of aught save personal experience. 
 
 ie other than ourselves can recognize 
 The love we lost in that we find again. 
 We only have the signs, the empty tomb, 
 The heart fulfilled, the <>rd to our souls ; 
 
 \ other word than this can move the World 
 To harmonize the rival claims of strength, 
 And wealth, and skill, nor yet begrudge the needs 
 < >t weakness, want, and ignorance — a work 
 Transcending reason, possible alone 
 I sympathy, sweet charm ol I and Loss. 
 And in this unity of interests, 
 Co-operation in its widest sense, 
 
 irdinated by the common bond 
 ( )f duty, not to self, or class, or race, 
 
 I even to mankind, but higher yet, 
 To Him whose name is Love, the World shall live. 
 
 [Lam/> burns low. 
 Then, looking on beyond this world of sense- 
 To that within us, where the human soul 
 Unaided, battles in a hopeless strife 
 With twofold possibilities of ill
 
 Scen] II.] A'OSMOS. S5 
 
 (Internal weakness and extrinsic force) 
 
 A hopeless task, to turn them both to good 
 
 Losing, to make our loss a gain to men ; 
 
 A thankless lot, to own our loss decreed, 
 
 No merit, but misfortune, or mistake. 
 
 Yet, finding that we live and love and judge 
 
 Though Life, and Love, and Choice be miracles, 
 
 We learn to cry, " I cannot, but I will, 
 
 God helping." Then His Presence proves itself 
 
 As trees are proven, bearing kindly fruit 
 
 Impossible to Earth. This fruit is Love; 
 
 And where Love is, though hoklen be our eyes, 
 
 Yet there is God. If that companionship 
 
 ( )nce be vouchsafed, no more we walk alone. 
 
 Our weight of care is lightened ; we may sleep 
 
 Nor fear the morrow ; nay. though Life seem spent 
 
 In vain, our wisdom turned to foolishness, 
 
 Our justice yielding inequalities, we know 
 
 It is but seeming, for Almighty Love 
 
 Is Wise and Just. 
 
 And thus we dare to say, 
 " Impossible are miracles ; that word 
 Is final." Yea ! henceforth we take our stand 
 On the ' impossible,' on that which is, 
 Which never was, for m jn to seal it up 
 And make a basis for .'xperiment ; 
 Which never shall be, to become the test 
 Of certain knowledg* by prediction sure,
 
 
 A'OSMOS. 
 
 A \ 
 
 But ever manifests itself anew, 
 
 True, though a thousand proofs proclaim it false ; 
 
 Life, though it visit us in guise of Death. 
 
 The forfeit ' might have been ' no longer lost, 
 
 But found where all is possible — in GOD. 
 
 [Lamp goes out. Walter, feeling his a 
 pushes against tlic forgotten box on his desk. 
 It falls to the ground and explodes, striking 
 him dead, and shattering the Ring to atoms. 
 
 THE END.
 
 TIM.HUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 
 
 DRAMA l.\ FOUR 4CTS.
 
 DRAMATIS PERSON. 1 
 
 Hypatia. 
 
 TlM.T.US. 
 
 Clearchus. 
 Nicodemus, a Monk. 
 Paulus, a Freedman. 
 
 Student. 
 Sla:
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Many years ago the author met with an accident 
 which rendered his eyes unserviceable except for the 
 purpose of reading at very short distances, and this 
 misfortune resulted in his substituting the sense of 
 touch for that of sight in the arrangement of his 
 papers. Strangely enough the change of method 
 thus introduced appeared to be an improvement, as 
 it gave him a means of reference to objects which 
 were beneath or behind other things, and which 
 • would therefore have been out of place in any 
 arrangement which was dominated by the sense of 
 sight. It was but a step from this extended classifi- 
 cation of objects to a similarly extended classification 
 of ideas, and here also the change seemed to be an 
 improvement. For instance, questions of 'right or 
 wrong ' and ' good or evil ' appear to admit of more 
 than one answer, and these answers often involve a
 
 90 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 seeming contradiction. Indeed, the acknowledged 
 difficulty of arriving at an accurate definition of such 
 matters points to some confusion of terms, and the 
 common phenomenon of argument at cross purposes 
 might be taken literally and not as a mere figurative 
 expression. The result might be paralleled by the 
 confusion of ideas which would ensue were we only 
 in possession of one pair of terms to express the three 
 different ways in which we move upwards or down- 
 wards, to right or to left, forwards or backwards. 
 Mankind has improved upon these purely personal 
 notions of position, thanks to the three great natural 
 landmarks supplied by the revolution of the earth, the 
 course of the magnetic current, and the action of 
 ui a\ ilv ; and the success of this generalization induced 
 the author to search for some such mental landmarks 
 whereby to define divergent lines of thought. While 
 thus engaged on this quest he observed that certain 
 turns of expression in the Athanasian Creed admitted 
 « »f a geometrical interpretation, suggesting a conscious 
 iparision between the arrangement of objects and 
 the order of ideas, and that so rendered they would 
 s( rve as a connecting link between the Platonic 
 hypothesis of three pre-existent principles and 
 the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Kingsley's 
 " Hypatia " suggested the plot of this little drama :
 
 INTRODUCTION. 91 
 
 and all that needs to be added by way of explanation 
 is an extract from the " Timaeus " which contains 
 the material part of the Platonic argument : 
 
 The Ti.m.eus, c. 26. 
 
 " Such being the case, we must acknowledge that 
 there is an idea which subsists according to sameness, 
 unproduced and not subject to decay; receiving 
 nothing into itself from elsewhere, and itself never 
 entering into any other nature, but invisible and 
 imperceptible by senses, and to be apprehended only 
 by pure intellect ; while the second, on the other 
 hand, which is like it, and bears the same name, is 
 perceptible by the senses, the effect of production, 
 ever in motion, coming into being in a certain S] 
 and then again hastening to decay, being apprehended 
 by opinion united with perception. 
 
 ■• Again, there is a third class of being — that of 
 eternal place ; which is never destroyed, but becomes 
 a seat (or receptacle) for everything created, being 
 perceptible of itself without the interference of the 
 senses by a sort of bastard reason, though scarcely 
 to be relied on ; and hence seeing it as in a dream, 
 we assert that every being must necessarily be some- 
 where, and in a certain place, and that nothing can 
 exist which is neither on earth, or in the heavens. . . ."
 
 92 IXTRODUCTIO.V. 
 
 c. 27. 
 
 •• This, then, is a summary of my opinion — that 
 there are three distinct things which existed before 
 the formation of the universe, Bein and 
 
 ration. ..."
 
 TIME'S THE ALEXANDRIAN 
 
 Alexandria, a.d. 415. 
 
 ACT I 
 
 M ( .k m ng. — The Museum. 
 
 Hypatia, Tim 1 us, Clearchi s. 
 
 Tim. (to Hypatia). You may remember how, a 
 while ago, 
 You likened the philosopher to one 
 
 st in the mountains far away from home ; 
 That home you said was Virtue, and the paths 
 I eading thereto were many, but of these 
 Three were the surest — Justice, Wisdom, Love; 
 And he does well who follows one of these, 
 But whoso wanders from the way does ill. 
 Yet these three tendencies seem oft to cross, 
 And good to lead to evil. Thus I ask 
 If one, whose sense of right and wrong is blurred
 
 94 T1M.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act I. 
 
 By circumstance and prejudice, may find 
 Some landmarks to direct his doubtful steps 
 \.s though some trusty guide should say, " The track 
 Of Justice leaves Olympus on the left, 
 But that of Wisdom leaves it on the right ? " 
 
 Hyp. What says Clearchus ? 
 
 Cle. I should answer thus : 
 
 Such landmarks may be found ; but ' left and right ' 
 Depend on our position. What is right 
 To him who comes, is left to him who goes ; 
 
 I should need some surer guides than these, 
 Some outlines of the land through which I fared. 
 Taking my bearings both by length and breadth. 
 
 Tim. Most excellent ; but pray consider now. 
 Suppose the journey long and difficult, 
 Through distant lands, as such a search must be 
 As this for Virtue ; then would ' length and breadth' 
 Be common terms which all would understand ? 
 
 Cle. Nay, then I'd take Apollo for my guide, 
 And steer by east and west, or north and south. 
 
 Tim. And always so ? 
 
 Cle. Yes, would not you ? 
 
 Tim. Perchance. 
 
 What says Hypatia ? She, not we, should speak. 
 
 Hyp. Thoughts limited by things are incomplete, 
 And larger views demand extended terms. 
 Thus definitions such as ' right and left,' 
 ' Backwards and forwards,' whose uncertain sense
 
 • vi [.] TIM.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 95 
 
 Is what each man interprets for himself, 
 
 Give place to ' east and west,' or ' north and south 
 
 Words which would be but meaningless 
 
 Applied to Universal sphere on sphere 
 
 Beyond their compass ; yet we surely know, 
 
 That all essential difference endures 
 
 Eternal, after as before the worlds — 
 
 So all the folly, and the hate and crime 
 
 Which come from our confusion of ideas, 
 
 ("ailing that 'just' which brings reward to us, 
 
 That ' wise' with which our own opinion fits, 
 
 That 'love' which thralls us though against our will, 
 
 These false shall fail, but Virtue still endure 
 
 Eternal fount of Justice, Wisdom, Love. 
 
 You ask for landmarks — these would but mislead ; 
 
 That ancestor whose name Timoeus bears 
 
 Knew the essentials to be self-revealed 
 
 Through forms of Being, Generation, Place. 
 
 The first is apprehended by the mind — 
 
 ■ Being' conditioned by itself alone, 
 
 Neither produced nor liable to change, 
 
 Itself receiving nothing from without 
 
 Nor into other nature entering. 
 
 We know not why it is, nor whence it comes, 
 
 But recognize it by its changelessness. 
 
 So Justice changes not; yet wherefore law 
 
 Is fixed, and certain deeds receive reward
 
 96 TIM. 1, US THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Am I 
 
 And others punishment, we cannot tell. 
 We only know that such a law exists. 
 
 A different idea our senses give 
 Of Being as a state of ceaseless change, 
 Ever in motion, springing into life, 
 Scarce at its fulness ere decay begins, 
 Then lice-ting out of life, a flow and ebb 
 Alternate — relative to the idea 
 ( If changeless Being which it traverses, 
 As son to father, form derived from form, 
 Present ere fashioned, freed to live or die, 
 Leaving the life through which it passed unchanged. 
 So Love no satisfaction knows nor rest, 
 With strong swift impulse working out desire, 
 Of Generation both the source and end. 
 
 But from this meeting of existences, 
 
 Being and Generation, so unlike 
 
 Vet so alike, perceived by mind and sense, 
 
 A third distinction, that of Place, appears ; 
 
 For things at rest are ever at their goal, 
 
 And things in motion never reach their end ; 
 
 So neither rest, nor change, can by itself 
 
 Suggest a separate idea of Place. 
 
 But when we see that things are sometimes fixed 
 
 And sometimes movable, we get a clue 
 
 To the idea of Place, which, whether full
 
 Scene I.] TIMMUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 97 
 
 Or empty, still remains the mould wherein 
 Created things are formed, in which they rest, 
 Or if estranged, the home to which they tend ; 
 And in this liberty of rest and change 
 The third existence manifests itself — 
 Fitness of place, the Order of the World. 
 So watchful Wisdom, calm upon the height 
 Her vantage ground, surveys the rival powers, 
 Custom and Innovation, rest and change, 
 Till by comparison of old and new 
 Knowledge is perfect through experience. 
 Thus Virtue reigns supreme o'er human life, 
 When Law guides selfishness with curb and spur, 
 When Beauty step by step leads on desire 
 To thirst for noble deeds and deathless fame, 
 Nor leaves that life in contradictions lost 
 Betwixt the claims of Duty and of Love, 
 When Wisdom, with divining spirit, marks 
 How the cross-threads of fate are not opposed 
 But interwoven, forming warp and woof 
 Of circumstance — the garment, not the man. 
 
 Clc. One word. You say that Virtue reigns supreme. 
 But of these rulers — Justice, Wisdom, Love — 
 Has any the pre-eminence ? 
 
 Hyp. Not one ; 
 
 For surely these outweigh all else, and hold 
 Co-equal empire in the perfect mind. 
 And since our estimate of Virtue leans 
 
 H
 
 9S TIMMUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act I. 
 
 (Our reason only halting at its best) 
 Upon opinion, and we praise the good, 
 (living it glory, calling evil shame, 
 And wonder at the largeness of its scope 
 Compared with mean and transitory ends, 
 So Wisdom, Love, and Justice share alike 
 Its glory and eternal majesty. 
 
 Enter throng of Students. 
 
 To-morrow, friends, we will pursue this theme. 
 Stu. (aside). To-morrow never comes ! 
 Slave {aside). Ill-omened words ! 
 
 END OF ACT I.
 
 Scene I.] TIMMUS THE ALEXANDRIA .V. 99 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 Afternoon. — Room in tiie house of Tim ;eus. 
 
 Tim (reads). "Long have I wandered from the path 
 of truth, 
 Misled by many ways which promised fair; 
 And now I, weary, know not where to turn, 
 Lost in the ' one' and 'all.'" 
 
 So many paths I 
 Agreed ! but surely there are men enough 
 Each path to follow, till we learn the true 
 From record of the false. So many paths 1 
 But surely every path does not diverge 
 At every step from all the rest. Why, see ! 
 All ways of men may be reduced to three : 
 Backwards and forwards, moving up or down, 
 Turning to right or left. All other paths 
 Are intermediate. Stay ! what is this ? 
 If by our terms of length and breadth and height 
 (Things finite and create) we represent 
 Ideas infinite and uncreate, 
 And if, as fair Hypatia said to-day,
 
 ioo TIMsEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act II. 
 
 " Essential difference is self-displayed," 
 
 We need no landmarks, but reduce our terms 
 
 To three dimensions, since we surely know 
 
 That these exist, related each to each, 
 
 As length, and breadth, and height. And further still, 
 
 This whole creation only simulates 
 
 The uncreate ideal universe 
 
 Made manifest to mind, as form to sense ; 
 
 So analogues of length, and breadth, and height 
 
 Display the nature of ideal form. 
 
 Ah ! now I see my way, and for the All 
 
 I read the Three ; and thus Xenophanes 
 
 Failed to perceive the geometric truth 
 
 Foreshadowed in the old Egyptian lore 
 
 And dimly seen by philosophic schools 
 
 (How nearly fathomed by a woman's wit !) — 
 
 " We only realize abstract ideas 
 
 Through three dimensions, as we apprehend 
 
 The shape of solids from their surfaces." 
 
 Now here our wisest teachers missed the mark 
 
 By trying to include the perfect good 
 
 Under one set of terms instead of three. 
 
 For Virtue bears three aspects, each complete 
 
 And perfect in itself, yet each by all 
 
 Pervaded, and itself pervading all. 
 
 First, Justice — she who portions good or ill 
 With equal hand according to desert,
 
 Scene I.] TIM/EUS THE ALEXANDRIA X 101 
 
 Making prosperity the guiding power 
 To conduct. How can higher aim be set 
 Than hope of meriting the Victor's Crown ? 
 And yet methinks I see another path 
 Dividing this of Justice ; heeding not 
 Rewards nor punishments, the strings which pull 
 That counterfeit of Virtue, which contends 
 Not for the Victory, but for the Crown. 
 And therefore Love, that ecstasy supreme, 
 Refuses to admit the test of worth 
 By fortune or misfortune, pressing on 
 Towards his desire, though good or ill betide. 
 So failure and success, opposing weights 
 When Justice holds the scales, have no account 
 In the award of Love, who gives the prize 
 To best endeavour. Yet athwart the paths 
 Of Justice and of Love, there runs the track 
 Of Wisdom — she who measures and decides, 
 Asking not if we win or lose the race, 
 Nor even how we strive to win the race, 
 But if the race itself be worth our pains. 
 Justice and Love are blind, but Wisdom sees, 
 And who would say, This thing is right or wrong, 
 Must test it by the threefold measurement 
 Of Justice, Love, and Wisdom ; nor award 
 The palm to him who wins, if fool or knave, 
 Nor yet to him who runs a foolish race, 
 Nor yet to him who knows, but does not act.
 
 102 TLV.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act IF. 
 
 So Virtue bears three names, which represent 
 
 Distinctive characters, and thus we find 
 
 The One in threefold semblance, when we strive 
 
 To realize our thoughts. Ideal Form 
 
 Is interchange of three existences, 
 
 Types of the three dimensions. These ideas 
 
 Are therefore equal, as the perfect cube 
 
 Consists of equal length, and breadth, and height. 
 
 And each is like to each : as one, so all 
 
 Alike in the ideal character, 
 
 Each uncreate, eternal, limitless. 
 
 Yet as the perfect cube is only One, 
 
 Although consisting of length, breadth, and height, 
 
 So as existences these terms are Three, 
 
 but as consistence they are One alone, 
 
 One limitless, eternal, uncreate. 
 
 Or — putting this another way — we raise 
 
 The perfect cube from any single power ; 
 
 For each is all-potential, and the cube 
 
 All length, all breadth, all height ; yet every term 
 
 Pervades the rest, or we should have three cubes, 
 
 One altogether length, one breadth, one height, 
 
 And thus' the all-potential is but One. 
 
 So Virtue comes from three existences 
 In combination — Justice, Wisdom, Love. 
 These, as Hypatia said, co-equal reign 
 In glory and eternal majesty,
 
 Scene L] TIMjEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 103 
 
 Wisdom and Justice being such as Love. 
 For these three principles are uncreate 
 And pre-exjisting ; nor can bounds be set 
 To Virtue, whose perfection stills exceeds 
 Our utmost definition, every term 
 Serving to mark another starting-point. 
 Yet, though consisting of three principles, 
 Its nature is but one ; and since we find 
 Its principles some common features show, 
 And some distinctive, then of these the last 
 Belong to their existence, but the first 
 To their consistence ; so we own not Three, 
 But One eternal, boundless, uncreate. 
 And since each principle pervades the whole 
 Of Virtue (which must ever be throughout 
 All-wise, all-generous, all-just) ; so each 
 Is all-potential, yet they co-exist, 
 And the all-powerful is One, not Three. 
 
 So far, the three dimensions are agreed 
 
 In their consistence, which we name the One ; 
 
 But yet they show essential difference 
 
 In their existence, which we name the All. 
 
 And as my namesake said, " This difference 
 
 Appears as Being, Generation, Place." 
 
 For now of these ideas, of length, breadth, height, 
 
 The first we realize is that of ' length,' 
 
 [Drawing a single li?ie on the table.
 
 io 4 TIMMVS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act II. 
 
 Conditioned by no power beyond itself, 
 Being, ungenerate, and made of none — 
 The sign of Justice — fixed, immutable. 
 \nd if I represent ideas by lines, 
 Whereof the first imagined, that of ' length,' 
 Represents changeless Being — then I draw 
 
 [Drawing a second line intersecting the first at 
 rig/it angles. 
 A second thus, and this is so conceived 
 That in or out of Being it may pass 
 Without confounding the idea of change, 
 Which it denotes, with the idea of rest. 
 So Generation is as 'breadth' to 'length,' 
 Existence neither made, nor yet create, 
 Begotten of the first idea alone — 
 The emblem of a restless longing Love. 
 But from this meeting of existences 
 Which form the personal or active plane, 
 Being and Generation, rest and change, 
 Rises a third, the Order of the world — 
 Token of Wisdom — choice of what is best. 
 And this is neither fashioned nor create, 
 Nor yet begotten, but the consequence 
 Proceeding, as the third idea of ' height ' 
 Thus traverses the plane of ' length and breadth ; ' 
 
 [Making as though he dreiu a third line up- 
 wards, from the point where the two first 
 lines intersected each other.
 
 Scene I.] TIMsEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 105 
 
 And now the three dimensions are complete, 
 
 And the essentials self-revealed through forms 
 
 Distinct of Being, Generation, Place ; 
 
 Not as three entities of each idea, 
 
 But one existence in three characters. 
 
 Yet of these powers, Justice, Wisdom, Love — 
 
 As of their analogues, length, height and breadth — 
 
 Ideas, not things — no one is first or last, 
 
 None more nor less, for there are no degrees 
 
 Comparative between them absolute, 
 
 Identical, or incompatible. 
 
 We know them abstract, as variety ; 
 
 We know them in the concrete, unity ; 
 
 But find no half-way house between these states 
 
 In which existence and consistence meet. 
 
 We cannot reconcile the impulses 
 
 Of interest and passion, which pervade 
 
 The active plane ; nor can we formulate 
 
 Thought into action ; often, though we know, 
 
 We do not act, or act against our will. 
 
 Our minds can only track one thought at once, 
 
 Yet here three diverse goals demand our steps. 
 
 We either strive for one, and miss the two, 
 
 Or make our life an endless compromise, 
 
 Acting like puppets — by opinion moved, 
 
 Not knowing if to tragedy or farce. 
 
 We need some guiding power beyond our own, 
 
 And therefore mortals call upon the gods.
 
 io6 Tl ILEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act [I. 
 
 Is this the lever which Hypatia seeks 
 
 Wherewith to move an unregarding world 
 
 Back to philosophy and quest of truth ? 
 
 Or is it but a lever in my hands 
 
 To move her love ? Ah ! foolish that I am 
 
 To dream of her ! As well might clattering steel 
 
 Turn supple, and fall soft in silent folds ; 
 
 As well might Dian's hounds be turned to hares, 
 
 And shivering flee where once they hotly chased, 
 
 As fair philosopher submit to love. 
 
 Ay ! there's the secret. Nature diverse gifts 
 
 On man and maid bestows ; we chase, they fly ; 
 
 'Tis ours to win ; they win but when they lose. 
 
 The more man fights for knowledge or renown, 
 
 The louder beats his pulse to Cupid's march. 
 
 But, when the woman learns like man to strive, 
 
 Nor rests contented with the passive voice, 
 
 She loses — nay, we lose — the art of Love. 
 
 Hypatia, like a man, thinks but of men 
 
 As scholars, teachers, rivals, not as men; 
 
 While I — am I unsexed that thus I note 
 
 Each changing turn and accent of her voice, 
 
 Each slightest fashion of her broidered hair, 
 
 Each careless look or action, each new fold 
 
 Of vesture, every gem on neck or arm ? 
 
 And but to say the thing she said is sweet ! 
 
 And but to breathe where she has breathed is life ! 
 
 And but to touch what she has touched is bliss !
 
 Scene I.] T1M.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 107 
 
 Therefore this wine of which her lips have quaffed — 
 Thrice happy to have kissed those lips divine ! — 
 
 [Taking a golden phial hung round his neck. 
 Is hallowed as libation to the Gods. 
 It may be I shall never own my love, 
 It may be I shall die before my time ; 
 But grant my prayer, Athene ! In that hour 
 Of death and birth, when life becomes a dream, 
 And dreams reality, oh ! may my face 
 From this be sprinkled, and my last deep thirst 
 From this be quenched ! Great Zeus ! my prayer is 
 
 heard, 
 For lighting on my casement, lo ! a dove, 
 Bearing Athene's sign — an olive spray ! 
 
 END OF ACT II.
 
 ioS TIMMUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act III. 
 
 ACT III. 
 Night. — A Street in Alexandria. 
 
 Etitcr Nicodemus. 
 
 -A ic. Forty years' sojourn in the wilderness, 
 And Canaan still denied, though every word 
 < )f Athanasius I have straitly kept. 
 u I leave my work unfinished— thine the task 
 To find the chosen servant of the Lord, 
 Ordained to crown the edifice of faith." 
 These his last words — as he with trembling hands 
 Placed in my grasp the scroll whereon is writ 
 The marvel of Three Persons and One God. 
 Henceforth I knew no rest, but ever sought 
 From holy men for oracles divine 
 To make the symbol perfect. All in vain — 
 For some said " nought was wanting in the stream, 
 Full to overflowing, bright and clear as day ; " 
 Others, " that so sublime a mystery 
 Passed human knowledge, and must aye be hid." 
 And in this questioning my life is spent,
 
 - ne I.] TIM.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 109 
 
 So that I fain must yield my precious charge, 
 
 Like the one talent, neither more nor less 
 
 Than when bestowed. Here let me pass the night ; 
 
 To-morrow I will render up the scroll 
 
 To Bishop Cyril ; then await my doom, 
 
 Unprofitable servant that I am. 
 
 Enter Paulus. 
 
 Pan. A priest ! the Lord be praised ! 
 
 Nic. Amen ! 
 
 Pan. Father, a dying man requires thy prayers 
 And the last offices of Holy Church. 
 
 Nic. I come, my son. 
 
 Pan. Not even asking where ? 
 
 Nic. Man cannot answer that which I would ask. 
 
 Pan. {aside). These anchorites are all a little mad. 
 {To Nicodemus). And yet my story you should hear. 
 
 Nic. Say on 
 
 Pan. Well, then. This afternoon I heard a shout, 
 And running out, I saw a frantic crowd 
 Surging like waves across the Julian Way ; 
 And shrill above the din went up the cry, 
 " Death to the witch, tear her from limb to limb !" 
 And for one moment o'er the sea of heads 
 Rose a white face, then sank no more to rise ; 
 And so the mob pressed on, and so to death 
 Hypatia passed. 
 
 Nic. Hypatia ! Who was she ?
 
 no TLM.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act III. 
 
 Pan. Why, she bewitched the city with her arts, 
 And justly met her doom. Well, as I turned 
 Homeward again, I saw upon the path 
 A helpless figure lying, hurt to death 
 By trampling feet ; and then a woman cried 
 From out a window — she had seen him strive 
 To snatch Hypatia from the grasp of one 
 Who bore her on his shoulder ; but he fell 
 Struck by a dozen hands ; so there he lay. 
 And I was passing on, when, as in sleep, 
 He moved, and o'er his face there flushed a smile, 
 Waking I know not what strange memories 
 Within my breast ; and so I, stooping, asked, 
 • Art thou a Christian ? " but he shook his head, 
 Still smiling ; and I turned away again, 
 When, with a fluttering sound, a snow-white dove 
 Hovered above us ; and I knew the sign, 
 And questioned thus : These women are such fool ' 
 Perchance he only strove to be the first 
 To offer up the sacrifice ; perchance 
 He meant — " not yet a Christian " — since the rite 
 Baptismal he as catechumen lacked ? 
 And looking upward at the blessed dove, 
 I saw that I had guessed — for in its beak 
 It bore an olive branch, whereby I knew 
 That it prefigured the salvation great 
 Of water to our second father given. 
 And so the wounded man I carried home,
 
 Scene L] TIMjEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. in 
 
 And laid him on my bed, and tended him ; 
 And evermore I blessed the guiding dove 
 That one so holy was not left to die 
 An outcast ; for his fingers never ceased 
 To trace the sacred sign of Him who died 
 For sinful men ; and ever in his speech 
 He called upon the blessed Trinity with words 
 Of mystic import. Nay ! no need for haste, 
 The door is here. 
 
 Nic. Quick ! quick ! when once the door 
 
 Is shut, the foolish ones may knock in vain ! 
 
 [ They enter hurriedly. 
 
 END OF ACT III.
 
 ii2 TIMEO'S THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act IV. 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 Sunrise.— Room in the house </Paulus. Nicodemus 
 iicar tabic with writing-materials. Ti M/Eus on a couch. 
 
 Nic. Yet I had hoped ; prophetic seemed the sign ; 
 But not for me. [Rising and looking at Tim.eus. 
 
 Poor boy ! for such thou art 
 Beside my weight of years ; what couldst thou teach 
 Of the great mystery from angels hid ? 
 
 [ Sits down and takes from his bosom a scroll. 
 This my last look upon these hallowed words 
 Which other hands shall claim. How firmly traced 
 This sentence which maintains the deity 
 Of Father, Son, and Spirit — " Persons Three 
 Whom man may not confound, but Substance One 
 Which man may not divide, Whose glory shines 
 Equal in co-eternal majesty." 
 Here the pen falters, as though faint and spent 
 In soaring through the infinite abyss ; 
 And oft I long for chosen words to tell 
 Wherein the nature of these glories Three,
 
 Scene I.] TIMsEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 
 
 Seeming so different, is Unity, 
 
 And thus maintain the first and greatest law, 
 
 That God is One. Yet, were this gift vouchsafed, 
 
 I fear to fall into idolatry 
 
 For want of some sure test beyond the sense, 
 
 Lest I should bow before the outward signs 
 
 Of majesty, for majesty itself — 
 
 Lost in the glories which Thy presence sheds. 
 
 The glory of the Father — King of kings, 
 And Judge of all men, seated on His throne, 
 Surrounded by the countless hosts of heaven, 
 Holding His court of Justice on mankind, 
 The glory of the Son — who left His throne 
 Because all majesty was nought to Him 
 While yet one sheep was missing from the fold ; 
 And so among us came incarnate Love — 
 Not that we loved Him, but that He loved us — 
 And triumphed, taking manhood into God. 
 And so the glory of the crown of thorns 
 Equals the glory of the crown of gold ; 
 And youths and maidens hesitate to choose 
 Whether to serve their God within His courts, 
 Making their life acceptable to Him, 
 Or going forth into this sinful world, 
 Losing themselves to win back other lives. 
 And so with heavy heart and languid pulse 
 Some start in contest for the golden crown, 
 
 i
 
 ii 4 TIMsEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. LA. i IV 
 
 While others, joyful and with nimble feet, 
 Follow the path whose ending is the cross. 
 Most Holy Spirit ! be Thy glory mine, 
 Who can no crown achieve, but only wait, 
 Like handmaid on her mistress, for the voice 
 Of Wisdom, making wise my foolishness. 
 No crown Thou wearest, but Thy glory lies 
 In peace and stillness, which no worlds can give 
 Nor take away. O'er chaos thou didst breathe, 
 And order was. Thy voice the Tishbite heard, 
 Quiet and small, and lo ! the ways Divine, 
 1 W law and zeal obscured, were manifest. 
 Whilst in our pride of reason and of strength 
 We question Justice as too hard a law, 
 We question Love as contrary to law, 
 Then comes the quiet of the frame bowed down 
 By sickness, and in watches of the night 
 That formless presence floats before our eyes, 
 That whisper penetrates our heart of hearts — 
 ''A father's justice always ends in love, 
 A father's love can never be unjust." 
 
 Thus Wisdom with divining spirit speaks, 
 
 And lo ! a glory fills the listening soul, 
 
 Gift of the Spirit, not as fits a king, 
 
 Nor like to that of martyrdom, but sweet 
 
 As the hushed calm which overspread the lake 
 
 When the command was given, " Peace, be still ! "
 
 Scene I.] TIMEUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. 115 
 
 Tim. " Father and Son ! " — the very terms she used 
 For the relation Justice bears to Love. 
 " Divining Spirit ! " these her self-same words, 
 For Wisdom judging betwixt rival claims, 
 Father, Son, Spirit — I accept the terms 
 For Justice, Love and Wisdom ; and again 
 I work my problem of the afternoon, 
 Defining how these characters exist 
 In one consistence, as length, breadth and height 
 In threefold semblance. Equally they share 
 Glory and co-eternal Majesty. 
 
 Nic. Why, so 'tis writ ! Surely he does not mock ! 
 Silence, my beating heart — he speaks again ! 
 
 Tim. Such as the Father, such again the Son, 
 And such the Spirit. 
 
 Nic. (writing). " Such the Holy Ghost ! " 
 
 Swift, swift, my pen ! 
 
 Tim. The Father uncreate — 
 
 Nic. Himself Creator ! 
 
 Tim. Uncreate the Son — 
 
 Nic. Before all worlds ! 
 
 Tim. The Spirit uncreate. 
 
 The Father whom no terms can comprehend ; 
 The Son incomprehensible ; 
 
 Nic. Amen. 
 
 Tim. Incomprehensible the Spirit. 
 
 Nic. Yea ! 
 
 ( Writing). " Incomprehensible the Holy Ghost. ; '
 
 u6 TIM. 7: US THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act IV. 
 
 Tim. Eternal Father, and eternal Son ; 
 Spirit eternal ; yet these are not Three, 
 Eternal, uncreate, and limitless, 
 But One, eternal, boundless, uncreate. 
 Once more. The Father is omnipotent ; 
 The Son almighty ; and all-powerful 
 The Spirit ; yet these are not Three, but One 
 * Omnipotent. 
 
 Nic. {writing). " But One !" So now the sense 
 Is clear of this, 1 find already writ, 
 That not Three Gods, nor Lords, exist, but One. 
 And thus we make confession of belief 
 In Unity — but still there lacks the proof 
 Of Trinity. 
 
 Tim. . The Father made of none, 
 \ either create, nor generate. The Son 
 
 Nic. i . i. "The Son!" Oh! wherefore dost 
 thou pause, dear youth ? 
 And why with trembling fingers dost thou trace 
 A line upon thy breast? 
 
 Tim. The Father thus — 
 
 [Making first sign. 
 
 Nic. And cross it by another line ? 
 
 Tim. The Son 
 
 [Making second sign. 
 
 Nic. Oh ! blessed Jesu ! Is it by the cross 
 Alone, that with the Father thou art seen ? 
 
 Tim. Is only of the Father, not create j
 
 Scexe I.] TIM.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. it? 
 
 Nor made, but generate. The Spirit- 
 
 Nic. Aye ! 
 
 (Writing): "The Holy Ghost ! " What means he 
 
 that sign, 
 As though he drew the life-blood from his heart ? 
 Tim. Not made, create, nor generate, but thus 
 Proceeding. [Making third sign. 
 
 So the Father, One, not Three — 
 One Son, and not Three Sons — the Spirit One, 
 Not Three — and in this Trinity nor first 
 Nor last is known, none greater and none less. 
 
 Nic. (writing). " None less ! " My task is done, for 
 here 'tis writ 
 That so co-equal are the blessed Three, 
 And co-eternal. Glory be to God ! 
 
 [Rising and going to the bedside. 
 Poor boy ! He sleeps, and ever in his dream 
 He sees the holy angels, for he smiles. 
 Surely he passeth out of death to life, 
 A spotless soul, unsullied by the world, 
 Yet unbaptized. Stay, what is this that shines 
 Fair on his breast ? 
 
 [Taking the phial from TiM/EUS' neck. 
 Why, this is precious wine ! 
 Some relic doubtless of a sacred feast 
 Prepared for men devout and virgins pure, 
 From whom he learned these holy mysteries ; 
 Nay ! for he said, " her words " — perchance she stands
 
 n8 TIM.EUS THE ALEXANDRIAN. [Act IV. 
 
 Before her Lord, her maiden robe of white 
 Becrimsoned with the blood of martyrdom. 
 Water is wanting, but the bridal Guest 
 Of Cana surely will vouchsafe to bless 
 This for the needful rite 
 
 [Sprinkling the face ^/"TiM/EUS. 
 I thee baptize 
 As Athanasius, bearing thus the cross [Making sign. 
 In name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ! 
 Still a few drops remain, and I, poor priest, 
 Yet still a priest, unworthy these to share, 
 yet still by grace a witness to the work — 
 These, in communion with those that sleep, 
 In memory of death which purchased life, 
 With thee I thus partake. 
 
 [Drinks and gives to Tim 
 
 Tim. No longer Thought, 
 
 But Life ! She beckons me ! Her eyes are sad, 
 But full of love unspeakable ! I come ! [Dies. 
 
 Nic. Mother of Jesu ! Blessed be the dead ! 
 
 THE END.
 
 THE MASTER'S WINDOW.
 
 THE MASTER'S WINDOW 
 
 I missed my train at the station, 
 And had several hours to wait ; 
 So I sauntered through Friars-gatc. 
 
 And made my way to the Minster, 
 
 Where a dear old Quaker spinster 
 
 And a man from Nevada in black, 
 Were suffering under the clack 
 
 Of the verger's demonstration. 
 
 The Westerner polished his hat, 
 
 And stared with inscrutable smile 
 Along nave and transept and aisle, 
 
 And his atmosphere prosaic 
 
 Was so fatal to thoughts archaic 
 
 That the guide's perfunctory lecture, 
 With its details of architecture, 
 
 Took a chill and fell hopelessly flat.
 
 122 THE MASTERS WINDOW. 
 
 Yet in one side-chapel we listened 
 'Mid the organ's far-off thunder, 
 As we stood before a wonder 
 
 Of colours broken and dim, 
 
 Like echoes of children's hymn, 
 
 Streaming down in a golden haze 
 With such light of the olden days, 
 
 That the dust took fire and glistened. 
 
 All the space around seemed vaster, 
 
 Touched with soft translucent fingers, 
 Where the craftsman's spirit lingers 
 
 In that pure and mystic dream, 
 
 And the gates of heaven seem 
 
 Open with foretaste of sweetness 
 From the perfect incompleteness 
 
 Of the window of the Master. 
 
 " He who wrought in such marvellous fashion 
 Had lived to see his name 
 Obscured, by the brighter fame 
 
 Of the pupil, to whom tradition 
 
 Attributes that fine composition — " 
 
 Here the verger signed with his wand 
 To a gorgeous window beyond, 
 
 In the transept, depicting the Passion.
 
 THE MASTER'S WINDOW. 123 
 
 " 'Tis magnificent, every one owns. 
 
 But from the few fragments remaining, 
 
 Qdds and ends of superfluous staining, 
 The Master this window designed. 
 The Scholar went out of his mind 
 
 From envy, and leaped from the clerestory ; 
 
 And in proof that this is not a mere story, 
 See the stain of his blood on the stones ! " 
 
 There was a red tinge on the floor, 
 
 But the Westerner put on a twang 
 Most nasal, and said, " Well, I'll hang 
 
 If this suicide isn't a fraud : 
 
 For this pavement's the sixth that I've scored, 
 Without counting the steps at Versailles, 
 Where the showman his customers riles 
 
 By passing off stone-mould for gore, 
 
 " Though it grows in the States by the acre. 
 
 Mind ! I don't say but what these two chaps 
 Might have once had a shindy perhaps, 
 
 But at York t'was the young fellow won, 
 
 And at Roslin the work that was done 
 
 Was carving not glazing." — The guide 
 Took his fee, but in no way replied 
 
 As he bowed out the slim lady Quaker.
 
 124 THE MASTER'S WINDOW. 
 
 She — when we had crossed the portal 
 Turned, with gesture deprecating 
 Towards the stranger — hesitating 
 
 Blushed, at her own boldness frightened ; 
 
 Then a smile her features brightened, 
 And she spoke in accents tender, 
 Soft and still, as those that render 
 
 Dying man, to hope immortal. 
 
 " Friend ! thy words so lightly spoken 
 Bring to me a gracious message ; 
 That these old-world stories presage 
 
 Not the barren facts of history, 
 
 But an underlying mystery 
 
 Of whose presence in our being, 
 To our fathers' child-like seeing, 
 
 Yon fair window seemed a token. 
 
 " Surely — every noble nature 
 
 Shapes itself to brightest ending, 
 Through the rich harmonious blending 
 
 Of a many-coloured life. 
 
 Then victorious in the strife, 
 Like the sun in glory sets, 
 While the gazing world forgets 
 
 The Creator in the creature.
 
 THE MASTER'S WINDOW. 125 
 
 " Yet the ' great ones ' of the earth 
 Hold their state apart from ours. 
 ^Not for us the scattered flowers, 
 
 Laurel crown, or cypress wreath. 
 
 No ! we struggle on to death, 
 
 With our bonds of daily duty 
 Little lightened by such beauty 
 
 As bedecks them from their birth. 
 
 " But the Master whom we slight 
 Fashions for Himself a witness 
 Out of weakness and unfitness ; 
 
 Human skill and strength refusing 
 
 Only wasted fragments choosing, 
 
 And from such poor waifs and strays 
 Lo ! a work of perfect praise, 
 
 Making all around it bright. 
 
 " Ah ! what grace for us, my friends, 
 Who in business, or in pleasure, 
 Spend our days, save some scant measure, 
 
 Scattered fragments here and there, 
 
 Snatched perchance, for praise or prayer ; 
 That our Master these collecteth ; 
 And such harmony perfecteth, 
 
 As earth's fairest dream transcends."
 
 126 THE MASTER'S WINDOW. 
 
 She was gone — and the Westerner peered 
 Into space, standing solemnly chinking 
 The coin in his pockets, and thinking 
 
 To the tune of a soft sibillation; 
 
 Then his hands by a swift extrication 
 
 He drew from their shelter, and placed 
 An arm within mine as in haste 
 
 Back again through the doorway he steered. 
 
 Saying, " Pard ! I feel mean, you may bet ; 
 
 A child could have raised out the boss ; 
 
 But, she — well ! I weaken, old hoss. 
 Say ! that show must be paid for, I guess." 
 And the poor-box within the recess 
 
 Was enriched by a handful that rolled 
 
 With the glitter and tinkle of gold — 
 My heart warms when I think of him yet ! 
 
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