Confounds, refracts, invig’rates, and combines?[[123]]

Whether the joys of earth, the hopes of heaven,

By man to God, or God to man, were given?[[124]]

If virtue leads to bliss, or vice to woe?

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Who rules above, or who reside below?[[125]]

Vain questions all—shall man presume to know?

On all these points, and points obscure as these,

Think they who will,—and think whate’er they please!

Let us a plainer, steadier theme pursue—