His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve,

Gave such impressions as such minds receive;

And with his moral and religious views

Wove the wild fancies of an Infant-Muse,

Inspiring thoughts that he could not express,

[Obscure-sublime]! his secret happiness.

Oft would he strive for words, and oft begin 170

To frame in verse the views he had within;

But ever fail’d: for how can words explain

The unform’d ideas of a teeming brain?