WHO ARE WE?
--how should a fool that calls him "I" presume
to comprehend not numerable whom?

Discuss:

Life, Love, Misc

Philosophy to read

Thou!

whose exterior semblance doth belie
Thy soul's immensity;
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,--
               Mighty prophet!  Seer blest!
               On whom those truths do rest,
Which we are toiling all our lives to find,
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy Immortality
Broods like the Day, a master o'er a slave