Some lesser synods of the wise
The Muses kept in universities;
But never yet till in thy soul
Had they a council œcumenical:
An abstract they'd a mind to see
Of all their scattered gifts, and summed them up in thee.
Thou hast the arts whole Zodiac run,
And fathom'st all that here is known;
Strange restless curiosity,
Adam himself came short of thee,—