Retain a Mind more lively, quick, and strong,

And better use their Understanding Power,

Than when their brains were warm, and limbs were young.

For though the body wasted be and weak,

And though the leaden form of earth it bears;

Yet when we hear that half-dead body speak,

We oft are ravished to the heavenly spheres.

2. Objection.

Yet say these men, "If all her organs die,

Then hath the Soul no power, her Powers to use!