Which runs through all, connecting race with race;

Save where those puzzling, stubborn links remain,

Which thy inferior light pursues in vain:-

How vice and virtue in the soul contend;

How widely differ, yet how nearly blend;

What various passions war on either part,

And now confirm, now melt the yielding heart:

How Fancy loves around the world to stray,

While Judgment slowly picks his sober way;

The stores of memory, and the flights sublime