Cut-text poem created on ilustration from an out-of-copyright article called “The Earth’s Interior.” The cut text is from the 1874 work, “The Stars and the Earth, Or, Thoughts Upon Space, Time, and Eternity.”
Up from Earth’s Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many Knots unravel’d by the Road;
But not the Master-Knot of Human Fate
From core of Earth to Saturn’s apogee,
I loosed the knots of heaven’s mystery;
The barriers of fake and fraud I crossed,
Yea, all the bars save that of Destiny.
Up from Earth’s Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many Knots unravel’d by the Road;
But not the Master-Knot of Human Fate
From core of Earth to Saturn’s apogee,
I loosed the knots of heaven’s mystery;
The barriers of fake and fraud I crossed,
Yea, all the bars save that of Destiny.