The strongest Gods dwell ever in the North,
In labor's land and sorrow's; but at length
Labor and sorrow bring the perfect strength.
See, from Ezekiel's northern hills leaps forth
The car of crystal floor and sapphire throne,
In amber-colored light and rainbow zone,
On self-moved beryl wheels,
Through fire-mist that reveals
Man, its great charioteer, aloft, alone,
Where round him float three mystic shapes divine,
Cloven foot of steer, and starred wing aquiline,
And lion's regal mane ready to rise,
Like slumbering Law, on all its enemies,
In strength, O guest, like thine.