Shall Bacchus claim thanks wherein Zeus has no part?

Zeus—wisdom anterior? No, maids, be admonished!

If morn's touch at base worked such wonders, much more

Had noontide in absolute glory astonished

Your den, filled a-top to o'erflowing. I pour

No such mad confusion. 'T is Man's to explore

Up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason:

No torch, it suffices—held deftly and straight.

Eyes, purblind at first, feel their way in due season,