Written In Butlers Sermons
By Matthew Arnold
Affections, Instincts, Principles, and Powers,
Impulse and Reason, Freedom and Control
So men, unravelling Gods harmonious whole.
Rend in a thousand shreds this life of ours.
Vain labour! Deep and broad, where none may see,
Spring the foundations of the shadowy throne
Where mans one Nature, queen-like, sits alone,
Centred in a majestic unity;
And rays her powers, like sister islands, seen
Linking their coral arms under the sea:
Or clusterd peaks, with plunging gulfs between
Spannd by arial arches, all of gold;
Whereoer the chariot wheels of Life are rolld
In cloudy circles, to eternity