And pride in these, more execrable still!

How horrid all to thought!—but horrors, these,

That vouch the truth; and aid my feeble song.

From vice, sense, fancy, no man can be blest: 1338

Bliss is too great, to lodge within an hour:

When an immortal being aims at bliss,

Duration is essential to the name.

O for a joy from reason! joy from that,

Which makes man Man; and, exercised aright,

Will make him more: a bounteous joy! that gives