The verdure prospers and the blossoms smile,

Yet poor the fruit, and form’d by long delay,

Nor will the profits for the culture pay;

The skilful gard’ner then no longer stops,

But turns to other beds for bearing crops.

Some Swedenborgians in our streets are found,

Those wandering walkers on enchanted ground,

Who in our world can other worlds survey,

And speak with spirits though confin’d in clay:

Of Bible-mysteries they the keys possess,