From crabbed Hobbes to courtly Bolingbroke;
And when we understood not, he would cry,
‘Let the expressions in your memory lie,
The light will soon break in, and you will find
Rest for your spirits, and be strong of mind!’
“Alas! however strong, however weak,
The rest was something we had still to seek!
“He taught us duties of no arduous kind, 470
The easy morals of the doubtful mind;
He bade us all our childish fears control,