That finds no limits but her own pure will.[319]
"Here then we rest; not fearing for our creed
The worst that human reasoning can achieve,
To unsettle or perplex it:[320] yet with pain
Acknowledging, and grievous self-reproach,
That, though immovably convinced, we want
Zeal, and the virtue to exist by faith
As soldiers live by courage; as, by strength
Of heart, the sailor fights with roaring seas.
Alas! the endowment of immortal power