Mak’st him a king, and even an angel’s peer?

O, what a lively life, what heavenly power,

What spreading virtue, what a sparkling fire,

How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower

Dost Thou within the dying flesh inspire!

Thou leav’st Thy print in other works of Thine,

But Thy whole image Thou in man hast writ;

There cannot be a creature more divine,

Except, like Thee, it should be infinite.

But it exceeds man’s thoughts, to think how high