And propagate its kind, far as he may?[666]

—Ah who (and with such rapture as befits

The hallowed theme) will rise and celebrate

The good man's purposes and deeds;[667] retrace

His struggles, his discomfitures[668] deplore,

His triumphs hail, and glorify his end;

That virtue, like the fumes and vapoury clouds

Through fancy's heat redounding in the brain,

And like the soft infections of the heart,

By charm of measured words may spread o'er field,