Above his equals. Farewel happy fields,

Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell,

Receive thy new possessor: one who brings

A mind not to be chang’d by place or time.

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less than he

Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least