Erect, immortal, rational, divine!

In senses, which inherit earth, and heavens; 420

Enjoy the various riches Nature yields;

Far nobler! give the riches they enjoy;

Give taste to fruits; and harmony to groves;

Their radiant beams to gold, and gold’s bright fire; 424

Take in, at once, the landscape of the world,

At a small inlet, which a grain might close,

And half create the wondrous world they see.

Our senses, as our reason, are divine.