The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges.

  • Robert Bridges
Date:
[1930]
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Credit: The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEEKING unceasingly for the First Cause of All, in question for what special Purpose he was made, Man, in the unsearchable darkness, knoweth one thing that as he is, so was he made: and if the Essence 340 and characteristic faculty of humanity is our conscient Reason and our desire of knowledge, thatt was Nature’s Purpose in the making of man. But can there be any Will or Purpose in Nature ? thatt Universe external to our percipient sense, which when we examin itself we think only to find a structur of blind atoms to their habits enslaved, or else, examining our senses, suspect to be a dream of empty appearance and vain imagery.— As a man thru’ a window into a darken’d house 350 peering vainly wil see, always and easily, the glass surface and his own face mirror’d thereon, tho’ looking from another angle, or hooding his eyes he may discern some real objects within the room— some say ’ tis so with us, and also affirm that they by study of their reflection hav discover’d in truth ther is nothing but thatt same reflection inside the house. See how they hav made o’ the window an impermeable wall partitioning man off from the rest of nature
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