Of a living ocean; or, to sink engulfed,[235]
Like Niger, in impenetrable sands
And utter darkness:[DC] thought which may be faced,
Though comfortless!—
"Not of myself I speak;
Such acquiescence neither doth imply,
In me, a meekly-bending spirit soothed
By natural piety; nor a lofty mind,
By philosophic discipline prepared
For calm subjection to acknowledged law;