From Job 1   A spirit passed before me: I beheld   The face of immortality unveil’d—      Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine—      And there it stood,—all formless—but divine:   Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake;   And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake: 2   “Is man more just than God? Is man more pure   Than He who deems even Seraphs insecure?      Creatures of clay—vain dwellers in the dust!      The moth survives you, and are ye more just?   Things of a day! you wither ere the night,   Heedless and blind to Wisdom’s wast’d light!”