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This is stanza 4-6 of Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Two Voices".

“An inner impulse rent the veil

Of his old husk: from head to tail

Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.

“He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;

Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dew

A living flash of light he flew.”

I said, “When first the world began,

Young Nature thro’ five cycles ran,

And in the sixth she moulded man.

Tennyson's poem "The Two Voices" attracted the attention of scholar Herbert Spencer, who believed some of the theories between the poem and his own book, The Principles of Psychology, were interconnected.