Old time, and fair creation, are forgot!
Is this extravagant? Of man we form
Extravagant conception, to be just:
Conception unconfined wants wings to reach him:
Beyond its reach, the Godhead only, more. 520
He, the great Father! kindled at one flame
The world of rationals; one spirit pour’d
From spirit’s awful fountain; pour’d himself
Through all their souls; but not in equal stream,
Profuse, or frugal, of th’ inspiring God,