While ever his God, like the sunlight, is throwing

His merciful, glorious, unquenchable ray.

LXIX.

I never lik’d the world so well,

It never seem’d so dear:

For I beheld it, as I fell,

And bless’d the little sphere.

And now I breathed the air again,

And felt ’twas native breath;

And I long’d to speak once more to men,