My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend,
(Now buried in an English grave--and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake, )
Ended our talk--"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern
learning, intuitions deep,
"Of all Geologies--Histories--of all Astronomy--of Evolution,
Metaphysics all,
"Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering,
"Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is
duly over, )
"The world, the race, the soul--in space and time the universes,
"All bound as is befitting each--all surely going somewhere."