By strict necessity, along the path
Of order and of good. Whate’er we see,
Whate’er we feel, by agency direct
Or indirect, shall tend to feed and nurse
Our faculties, shall fix in calmer seats
Of moral strength, and raise to loftier heights
Of love divine, our intellectual soul.”
—Wordsworth (“The Excursion,” Book IV.).
LXII.
1, 2.—“... winged words on which the soul would pierce