Train’d to mistake, and disciplined to stray;
Not long:—for reason gilded error’s night,
And doubts, well-founded, shot a dawn of light—
Nor prejudice o’ersway’d his heart and head.
Resolved to follow truth where’er she led,
The radiant track audacious to pursue
From fame, from interest, and from friends he flew.
Those shock’d him first who laugh at human sway,
Who preach, ‘Because commanded, disobey;’
Alike the crown and mitre who forswore,