Ours know the thoughts and the intents of men.

To them all cities and all fertile coasts

Inhabited by men are known; they cross

The great sea scudding fast, involved in mist

And darkness, with no fear of perishing

Or meeting harm.”

Wm. Cullen Bryant, “The Odyssey of Homer,” Boston, 1875, Vol. I. p. 174.

“For unto us no pilots appertain,

Rudder nor helm which other barks obey.

These ruled by reason, their own course essay