Research and Reason, ranged on either hand,

Proclaim her message to each waiting land;

In truths whose import stands but part revealed,

Till man befit himself those truths to wield;

Since to high Knowledge duties high belong,

As to the poet’s power the task of worthy song.

II.

And man, from every stage of slow degree,

Amendment for his previous rule may see;

His keener conscience in our fuller time