’Tis that, and that alone, can countervail
The body’s treacheries, and the world’s assaults:
On earth’s poor pay our famish’d virtue dies. 250
Truth incontestible! in spite of all
A Bayle has preach’d, or a Voltaire believed.
In man the more we dive, the more we see
Heaven’s signet stamping an immortal make.
Dive to the bottom of his soul, the base
Sustaining all; what find we? knowledge, love.
As light and heat, essential to the sun,