As in a magnifying mirror seen,
Enlarged, ennobled, elevate, divine! 120
To prophesy our own futurities;
To gaze in thought on what all thought transcends!
To talk, with fellow-candidates, of joys
As far beyond conception as desert,
Ourselves th’ astonish’d talkers, and the tale!
Lorenzo, swells thy bosom at the thought?
The swell becomes thee: ’tis an honest pride.
Revere thyself;—and yet thyself despise.