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Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night,
In one black mystery two void mysteries blends; / The stray stars, whose innumerable light / Repeats one mystery till conjecture ends; / The stream of time, known by birth-bursting bubbles; / The gulf of silence, empty even of nought; / Thought's high-walled maze, which the outed owner troubles / Because the string's lost and the plan forgot:
When I think on this and that here I stand, / The thinker of these thoughts, emptily wise, / Holding up to my thinking my thing-hand / And looking at it with thought-alien eyes, / The prayer of my wonder looketh past / The universal darkness lone and vast.