The noontide arrow foils, and plague that stalks by night;

Unmatch’d in power, unbounded in extent,

As omnipresent as omnipotent,

To no meridian nor clime confined,

Man with his fellow-man, and mind to mind,

’Tis hers, in links of love and charity to bind.

But farther still extends her awful reign:

To her indeed belongs that golden chain

From fabled God and their Olympus riven;

But, since to truth and her adorers given,