Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed,

An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air

(Thy tempering); with like safety guided down

Return me to my native element;

Lest from this flying steed unreined (as once

Bellerophon, though from a lower sphere),

Dismounted on the Aleian field I fall,

Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.”

Young, in his “Night Thoughts,” speaking of the sceptic, says:

“He whose blind thought futurity denies,