Such men, such women, and such gods their guard!

The gods? he worshipped best who feared them most,

And left their nature uninquired into,

—Nature? their very names! pay reverence,

Do sacrifice for our part, theirs would be

To prove benignantest of playfellows.

With kindly humanism they countenanced

Our emulation of divine escapes

Through sense and soul: soul, sense are made to use;

Use each, acknowledging its god the while!