Allie, Re-Visited

thought chang’d the infinite to a serpent, that which pitieth;

to a devouring flame, and man fled from its face and hid

in forests of night; then all the eturnal forests were divided

into earths rolling in circle of space, that like an ocean rush’d

and overwhelmed all except this finite wall of flesh.

Then was the serpent temple form’d, image of infinate

shut up in finite revolutions; and man became an Angel;

Heaven a mighty circle turning; “god” a tyrant crown’d.

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