And death the end of all;—still would I know

The total Curse—the sum of being’s woe.

XXXIV.

“Yet fear not this, for each new truth reveals

Of God a nearer and a brighter view;

Anticipation lags behind, and feels

How mean her thought at each discovery new;

Her stars were stones fired in revolving wheels—

Truth! thine are worlds self-moved the boundless through

Who checks man’s Reason in her heavenward flight,