Nor stray a foot's breadth from the beaten road.

Who means to help must still support the load

Hildebrand lifted—'why hast Thou,' he groaned,

'Imposed on me a burden, Paul had moaned,

And Moses dropped beneath?' Much done—and yet

Doubtless that grandest task God ever set

On man, left much to do: at his arm's wrench,

Charlemagne's scaffold fell; but pillars blench

Merely, start back again—perchance have been

Taken for buttresses: crash every screen,