This world is not conclusion

IV.

TIME AND ETERNITY.

I.

THIS world is not conclusion;

      A sequel stands beyond,

Invisible, as music,

      But positive, as sound.

It beckons and it baffles;

      Philosophies don't know,

And through a riddle, at the last,

      Sagacity must go.

To guess it puzzles scholars;

      To gain it, men have shown

Contempt of generations,

      And crucifixion known.