Of God’s whole constitution as we see it,

Than the belief that death’s our end of all.

To live in conscious harmony with nature

May satisfy our being; but religion

Looks like the poetry which childhood makes

To cloke its empty terrors, or bedizen

Its painted idols: such is my persuasion.

Pr. And mine.

Sen.Ah, Priscus, thou art young. I once

Looked forward into life with a proud heart,