Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises <br />Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: <br />Thought can see not thence the goal of hope's surmises <br /> Far beyond. <br /> <br />Night and day have made an everlasting bond <br />Each with each to hide in yet more deep disguises <br />Truth, till souls of men that thirst for truth despond. <br /> <br />All that man in pride of spirit slights or prizes, <br />All the dreams that make him fearful, fain, or fond, <br />Fade at forethought's touch of life's unknown surprises <br /> Far beyond.<br /><br />Algernon Charles Swinburne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/plus-ultra/
