And they had hopes that overstepped the Grave.
"Now, shall our great Discoverers," he exclaimed,
Raising his voice triumphantly, "obtain
From sense and reason less than these obtained,
Though far misled? Shall men for whom our age
Unbaffled powers of vision hath prepared,
To explore the world without and world within,
Be joyless as the blind? Ambitious spirits—[383]
Whom earth, at this late season, hath produced
To regulate the moving spheres, and weigh