Discovers, if heart and brain be proof,

No necessary ending.

Foot up, foot down, to the turn abrupt

Having trod, he, there arriving,

Finds—what he took for a point was breadth,

A mercy of Nature's contriving.

So, he rounds what, when 't is reached, proves straight,

From one side gains the other:

The wee path widens—resume the march,

And he foils you, Ben my brother!