By sweet attraction, no less strongly drawn;
Awed, and yet raptured; raptured, yet serene; 1842
Past thought illustrious, but with borrow’d beams;
In still approaching circles, still remote,
Revolving round the sun’s eternal Sire?
Or sent, in lines direct, on embassies
To nations—in what latitude?—Beyond
Terrestrial thought’s horizon!—And on what
High errands sent?—Here human effort ends;
And leaves me still a stranger to His throne. 1850