Omnipotent! for I see nought but power.
“And why see that? Why thought? To toil, and eat,
Then make our bed in darkness, needs no thought. 760
What superfluities are reasoning souls!
Oh give eternity! or thought destroy.
But without thought our curse were half unfelt;
Its blunted edge would spare the throbbing heart;
And, therefore, ’tis bestow’d, I thank thee, Reason!
For aiding life’s too small calamities,
And giving being to the dread of Death.