Seek, and ye shall Find

The man who learns what Life can teach
Shall see beyond his soul at last;
Shall mix with all that is and reach
A secret hidden from the past.

The goad that spurs him past his worth
Is self; yet soon he leaves behind
The shadows and the dust of earth
And reaches tow'rds the Eternal Mind.

'Tis self that spurs him on to truth;
And Faustus bows a whitening head
Unwearied in the quest for youth,
But finds the laws of life instead.

So Kepler, at a prince's hope
To date a victory in his wars,
Shall cast a captain's horoscope
And note the motion of the stars.

For more than all we ask we find,
And more than triumph ends our strife;
Seek on, for there are worlds behind,
Seek on and reach the source of Life!

At one with earth and heaven, turn
In widening circles, human soul!
Forget the Here and Now, and learn
At last to contemplate the whole.