Assured themselves, where wiser men but guess:

’Tis theirs to see around, about, above, -

How spirits mingle thoughts, and angels move;

Those whom our grosser views from us exclude,

To them appear - a heavenly multitude;

While the dark sayings, seal’d to men like us,

Their priests interpret, and their flocks discuss.

But while these gifted men, a favour’d fold,

New powers exhibit and new worlds behold;

Is there not danger lest their minds confound