The law that governs each; and where begins

The union, the partition where, that makes

Kind and degree, among all visible Beings;

The constitutions, powers, and faculties,

Which they inherit,—cannot step beyond,—

And cannot fall beneath; that do assign

To every class its station and its office,

Through all the mighty commonwealth of things

Up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man.

Such converse, if directed by a meek,