I Was There: I. Beginning My Studies

Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much

The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion

The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love

The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much

I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther

But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs