That thus receiving from the fount of Life

The living stream, their natures may become

Divine, angelical, prepared to form

A still increasing universe of bliss.

Oh thought ennobling, destiny sublime!

Happy the man who marks the canons writ

On his own being, on the sacred page

Of revelation, and the ordered frame

Of this fair world, and with an effort firm

And persevering, strives to win the prize!