Pr. Bid me not tell if ye have fear to hear;
But have no fear. Knowledge of future things 1004
Can nothing change man’s spirit: and though he seem
To aim his passion darkly, like a shaft
Shot toward some fearful sound in thickest night,
He hath an owl’s eye, and must blink at day.
The springs of memory, that feed alike
His thought and action, draw from furthest time
Their constant source, and hardly brook constraint
Of actual circumstance, far less attend