That which he deemed a courser’s but his own shanks’ sides.
His senses, thoughts, and reasonings, he then will find,
Are but the infant’s hobby,—pa’s cane, more refined.20
The wisdom of the saints is what bears them aloft.
The science of the worldly is their load;—how oft!
The wisdom of the heart sustains and elevates;
But knowledge sensuously acquired as burden rates.
’Tis God hath said: “An ass with volumes for his load.”[372]
So knowledge is a burden, when not of God’s code.
All science not received from word of God direct,