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TIME SPACE by ISABEL FISKE CONANT

First Line: INTO THE UNIVERSE I CRAWL
Last Line: AND TIME A DREAM. . . .
Subject(s): GOD; METAPHYSICS; SPACE & SPACE TRAVEL; TIME; UNIVERSE; OUTER SPACE; FOURTH DIMENSION;

Into the Universe I crawl --
The table-top -- the Sky;
Man on a mountain -- mouse from a wall --
Observer, I.

I shall see what I shall see:
Time -- the Fourth Space --
The inkwell -- the Pleiades --
A god's face.

Push on, point, through your line;
Line, through your square;
Rise, square, your cube define --
A god is there.

Box of God, arise, arise,
Three-dimensional;
Through the contracting skies
Upward fall.

Into your fourth estate
Expanding, climb;
Swing the gods' arched gate
On the hinge of Time.

Let illusion fall away,
Skyscrapers seem
Blocks tossed aslant in play --
And Time a dream. . . .



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