But only sinking, all absorb’d may see
In the abysses of eternity.
Perhaps, thence stepping more disorder’d yet,
He rushes his presumptuous flight to set
Ev’n to the throne of God! with his dim eyes
The Great Inscrutable to scrutinize;
Sounding the gulf immense, that circles round
The Deity, he ventures o’er its bound.
What can he gain in such a pathless course
But endless doubts, his ignorance the source?