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134 When he or she appears, materials are overawed, The dispute on the Soul stops, The old customs and phrases are confronted, turned
 * back, or laid away.

What is your money-making now? What can it do
 * now?

What is your respectability now? What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions,
 * statute-books now?

Where are your jibes of being now? Where are your cavils about the Soul now?

Was that your best? Were those your vast and
 * solid?

Riches, opinions, politics, institutions, to part obediently
 * from the path of one man or woman!

The centuries, and all authority, to be trod under
 * the foot-soles of one man or woman!

—A sterile landscape covers the ore—there is as
 * good as the best, for all the forbidding appearance,

There is the mine, there are the miners, The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplished,
 * the hammers-men are at hand with their tongs
 * and hammers,

What always served and always serves, is at hand.

Than this nothing has better served—it has served
 * all,

Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek,
 * and long ere the Greek,