{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/th1/th103.htm","path":"gno/th1/th103.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th1/th103.htm","text":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906]\nWas he one or many, merging\nName and fame in one,\nLike a stream, to which, converging,\nMany streamlets run?\n. . . . . .\nWho shall call his dreams fallacious? \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Who has searched or sought \nAll the unexplored and spacious \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Universe of thought? \nWho in his own skill confiding, \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shall with rule and line \nMark the border-land dividing \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Human and divine? \nTrismegistus! Three times greatest! \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How thy name sublime \nHas descended to this latest \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Progeny of time! \nLongfellow, Hermes Trismegistus. 1\nxvi:1 This poem is dated January 1882. Chambers (p. 155, n.) says: \u201cIt is noteworthy that the last poem of Longfellow was a lyrical ode in celebration of Hermes Trismegistus.\u201d","title":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1: Poem","type":"page"}