Hermes Trismegistus

Was he one or many, merging     Name and fame in one, Like a stream, to which, converging,     Many streamlets run?  . . . . . . Who shall call his dreams fallacious?     Who has searched or sought All the unexplored and spacious     Universe of thought? Who in his own skill confiding,     Shall with rule and line Mark the border-land dividing     Human and divine? Trismegistus! Three times greatest!     How thy name sublime Has descended to this latest     Progeny of time!

Longfellow, Hermes Trismegistus