To solve all knots; to strike the moral home;

To throw full day on darkest scenes of time;

To clear, commend, exalt, and crown the whole.

Hence, in one peal of loud, eternal praise,

The charm’d spectators thunder their applause;

And the vast void beyond, applause resounds.

What then am I?—

Amidst applauding worlds,

And worlds celestial, is there found on earth,

A peevish, dissonant, rebellious string, 370