To think of time - of all that retrospection，

    To think of to-day， and the ages continued henceforward.

    Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue？

    Have you dreaded¹ these earth-beetles？

    Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you？

    Is to-day nothing？ is the beginningless past nothing？

    If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.

    To think that the sun rose in the east - that men and women

    were flexible， real， alive - that every thing was alive，

    To think that you and I did not see， feel， think， nor bear our

    part，

    To think that we are now here and bear our part.