By more than feeble faith on the Supreme!

To call heaven’s rich unfathomable mines

(Mines, which support archangels in their state,)

Our own! To rise in science as in bliss,

Initiate in the secrets of the skies!

To read creation; read its mighty plan

In the bare bosom of the Deity!

The plan, and execution, to collate!

To see, before each glance of piercing thought,

All cloud, all shadow blown remote; and leave