To do a nobler office. Generous minds

Behold thee, and are moved and learn to rise

Above earth's frivolous pleasures; they partake

Thy grandeur at the utterance of thy name.

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"Dread torrent, that with wonder and with fear

Dost overwhelm the soul of him who looks

Upon thee, and dost bear it from itself,—

Whence hast thou thy beginning? Who supplies,

Age after age, thy unexhausted springs?