And who shall judge the creature, will forgive.

—Yet, in its general tenor, your complaint

Is all too true; and surely not misplaced:

For, from this pregnant spot of ground, such thoughts

Rise to the notice of a serious mind

By natural exhalation. With the dead

In their repose, the living in their mirth,

Who can reflect, unmoved, upon the round

Of smooth and solemnized complacencies,

By which, on Christian lands, from age to age