A Universe Within

A Universe Within

Set out for a journey, I bid foes and friends goodbye.

Contemplating a solitary trip to immortality was I

To the end of man’s knowledge,

To the far-reaching of the ocean surface,

To the borderless space above,

To the world’s edge,

To the gate of Hades’s realm, I drove.

‘Tis for the sake of an infinite,

Wandered I, across the lands, my purpose unattained,

The sky aloft, the conquered earth beyond my right,

Vainly, I looked for your sight,

There, on the end of my flight,

Realized I, Alas! The Universe is but within me, here, my immortality!