Some arbitrary judgment take,

And wilfully pronounce it clear,

For this or that ’tis we are here?

Or is it right, and will it do,

To pace the sad confusion through,

And say:—It doth not yet appear,

What we shall be, what we are here?

Ah yet, when all is thought and said,

The heart still overrules the head;

Still what we hope we must believe,