To make head's gain the portion of a world

Where else the uninstructed ones too sure

Would take all outside beauty—film that's furled

About a star—for the star's self, endure

No guidance to the central glory,—nay,

(Sadder) might apprehend the film was fog,

Or (worst) wish all but vapor well away,

And sky's pure product thickened from earth's bog—

Since so, nor seldom, have your worthiest failed

To trust their own soul's insight—why? except