I am so small

I am so small, let me be smaller still

Until my consciousness can identify

With cellular life and infinitesimal things

And know in the atom God's infinity.

Let me not dream the aggrandising dreams

That blindly leap to a future falsely bright

Ere the work's begun, the vessel pure,

I have not yet found passage through the night.

Give me simplicity and stay the mind

From fruitless labours endlessly begun,

Cease the circling round of senseless thoughts

And focus the inner flame upon the One.