Which gently in his truthful bosom wake

All kindly passions and all pure desires.

Him (still from hope to hope the bliss pursuing,

Which from the exhaustless store of human weal

Draws on the virtuous mind), the thoughts that rise

In time-destroying infiniteness, gift

With self-enshrined eternity, that mocks

The unprevailing hoariness of age:

And Man, once fleeting o’er the transient scene,

Swift as an unremembered vision, stands