Heightening their mutual bliss; or dwell they fix’d,

Each in his native solitary orb,

Unconscious of the lot of neighboring worlds?

What homage, what returns of grateful love

Yield they to Him who made them? Stand they fast

In undecaying blessedness, secure

From risk of loss: or tread they yet the stage

Of perilous probation? Hath sin won

Conquests through disobedience o’er those hosts

In your bright regions yawn the gates of Death?