Wherever man has made himself a home,

And there I find the story of our race

In little, just at Croisic as at Rome.

What matters the degree? the kind I trace.

Druids their temple, Christians have their dome:

So with mankind; and Croisic, I 'll engage,

With Rome yields sort for sort, in age for age.

XIX

No doubt, men vastly differ: and we need

Some strange exceptional benevolence