The bold aspirings of this angel blind!

God is her strength within, and bids her spell,

By outward promptings, the eternal Mind:

Long may she wander still in quest of light,

But day will dawn at last upon a polar night.”

XXX.

“A dangerous tenet that!” the Elder said;

“A fallen angel doubtless she may be;

If truth she find by natural reason’s aid,

It ever leads her to some heresy;