Rivals he faced like a strong swimmer breasting
Waves that, once grappled with, terrors have none.
‘Trinity marked him o’er-topping the crowd of
Heads and Professors, self-centred, alone:
Rude as his strength was, that strength she was proud of,
Body and mind, she knew all was her own.
‘“Science his strength, and Omniscience his weakness,”
So they said of him, who envied his power;
Those whom he silenced with more might than meekness,
Carped at his back, in his face fain to cower.