For how can that be false, which every tongue,
Of every mortal man, affirms for true;
Which truth hath, in all ages, been so strong,
As loadstone-like, all hearts it ever drew.
For not the Christian or the Jew alone;
The Persian, or the Turk acknowledge this:
This mystery to the wild Indian known,
And to the Cannibal and Tartar, is.
This rich Assyrian drug grows everywhere,
As common in the North, as in the East!