The optic nerve is the channel by which the mind peruses the hand-writing of Nature on the retina, and through which it transfers to that material tablet its decisions and its creations.

] TABLET IIICOLUMN I HEABANI'S WISDOMSONG OF THE KHAU-IK-I The dark-eyed maids are dancing in the halls Of Erech's palace: music fills the walls Of splendor where the Sar-dan-nu enthroned, His hours is whiling by the maidens zoned; A whirling garland chanting forth a song.

] TABLET IIICOLUMN I HEABANI'S WISDOMSONG OF THE KHAU-IK-I The dark-eyed maids are dancing in the halls Of Erech's palace: music fills the walls Of splendor where the Sar-dan-nu enthroned, His hours is whiling by the maidens zoned; A whirling garland chanting forth a song.