II

Its very brightness makes it near the eye,

Tho' many thousand leagues beyond the sky.

Its beams by violence

Invade, and ravish distant sense.

Only extremes and heights are known,

No certainty, where no perfection's, shewn.

Extremities of blessedness

Compel us to confess

A God indeed, Whose excellence

In all His works must needs exceed all sense.