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