Time never stops but is always moving on;

Man's destiny and lot are ever swerved

To outline zigzags and curves and turns.

Capacities of all things are illimitable;

The end and the beginning of events

Never occur twice in the same way.

Looking at the subject in this wise,

How can I know that the point of a hair

Is sufficient to determine the minuteness

Of what is most small, or that Heaven

And Earth are sufficient to complete

The dimension of what is most great?

For this reason, the men of wisdom,

Looking at things far off or near at hand,

Do not consider them as insignificant

For being too small, nor much of them

For being ever mostly great. . .