The mystic treasures of her matron breast,

Bread for her children, gems like living flame,

Sapphires, whose azure emulates the skies,

And dust of gold. Yet there's a curtain'd path

Which the unfettered denizens of air

Have not descried, nor even the piercing eye

Of the black vulture seen. The lion's whelps

In their wide roaming, nor their fiercer sire

Have never trod it.

There's a Hand that bares