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288 Behold the shimmer,

The wild dissipation,

And, out of endeavor

To change and to flow,

The gas become solid,

And phantoms and nothings

Return to be things,

And endless imbroglio

Is law and the world,—

Then first shalt thou know,

That in the wild turmoil,

Horsed on the Proteus,

Thou ridest to power,

And to endurance.