Discoursed of natural or[680] moral truth

With eloquence, and such authentic power,

That, in his presence, humbler knowledge stood

Abashed, and tender pity overawed."[IZ]

"A noble—and, to unreflecting minds,

A marvellous spectacle," the Wanderer said,

"Beings like these present! But proof abounds

Upon the earth that faculties, which seem

Extinguished, do not, therefore cease to be.

And to the mind among her powers of sense