Accomplishment

Hold to the rapture: let it work Inward till founts of being fill, And all is clear that once was murk, And Beauty's self rise, mirrored still, Before the mind, that shall devise New forms of earth to realize. Let it possess the heart and soul, And through the two evolve the one, And so achieve th' immortal goal Of something great that man has done: Pouring his thought, his dream intense, Into the molds of permanence. Within the compass of extremes Science and Art their worlds have set, Wherein the soul fulfills its dreams, And evermore, without a let, Swift, eagle-like, free, unconfined, Soars to new altitudes of mind.