Exist, perceive; with Being are endowed,

However slight, distinct from what they See,

However bounded; Happiness must be,

To feed the first by gleanings from the last,

Attain its qualities, and slow or fast

Become what they behold; such peace-in-strife

By transmutation, is the Use of Life,

The Alien turning Native to the soul

Or body—which instructs me; I am whole

There and demand a Palma; had the world