With shadowy trident how Volition guides,

Surge after surge, his intellectual tides;

Or, Queen of Sleep, Imagination roves

With frantic Sorrows, or delirious Loves.

Go on, O FRIEND! explore with eagle-eye;

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Where wrapp'd in night retiring Causes lie:

Trace their slight bands, their secret haunts betray,

And give new wonders to the beam of day;

Till, link by link with step aspiring trod,