Beyond the bounds of reason, can afford
Aught of serenity or peace of mind.
In vain invention furnishes new schemes
To drown reflection: these abortive prove,
And leave unadvocated and abash’d,
At the dread bar of Conscience, him who late
Defy’d her power and spurned her admonitions.
—Now prostrate falls the culprit in the dust,
While thund’ring through his soul the awful voice
Shatters his stubborn will, and breaks the bands