To hold the Titan, rose all free among
The weak Philistines that before him quailed,
And bade defiance to the coward-throng!
So the Titanic soul through moral power
Rending the toils of Calumny, doth tower—
A host within itself—sublimely free,
Above the foes that in their weakness cower.
Shorn of its strength the human soul must be,
Ere overcome by truth’s worst enemy.