Through hedges, ditches, and through all that's ill.

'Twere crime in any man but him alone,

To use a body so, though 'tis one's own:

Yet this false comfort never gives him o'er,

That, whilst he creeps, his vigorous thoughts can soar:

Alas! that soaring to those few that know,

Is but a busy grovelling here below.

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{ So men in rapture think they mount the sky,

{ Whilst on the ground the entranced wretches lie: