Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath

Favonian, from warm chambers of the south,

[fades, Recalls the first. All, to reflourish, As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.

With this minute distinction, emblems just,

Nature revolves, but man advances; both

Eternal; that a circle, this a line. That gravitates, this soars. The aspiring soul,

Ardent and tremulous, like flame, ascends;

Zeal and humility, her wings to heaven.

The world of matter, with its various forms,

All dies into new life. Life born from death

Rolls the vast mass, and shall for

ever roll.

No single atom, once in being, lost.

spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;

From human mould we reap our daily bread.

The globe around earth's hollow surface shakes,

And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons. O'er devastation we blind revels keep; While buried towns support the dancer's heel.

exhales;

Winds scatter, through the mighty void, the dry;

Earth repossesses part of what she