And the best ages of the world prescribe.

—Preaching, administering, in every work

Of his sublime vocation, in the walks

Of worldly intercourse between[662] man and man,

And in his humble dwelling, he appears

A labourer, with moral virtue girt,

With spiritual graces, like a glory, crowned."

"Doubt can be none," the Pastor said, "for whom

This portraiture is sketched. The great, the good,

The well-beloved, the fortunate, the wise,—