Held with all Kinds in Eden’s blissful bowers. 65

Then question not that, ’mid the austere Band,

Who breathe the air he breathed, tread where he trod,

Some true Partakers of his loving spirit

Do still survive,[137] and, with those gentle hearts

Consorted, Others, in the power, the faith, 70

Of a baptized imagination, prompt

To catch from Nature’s humblest monitors

Whate’er they bring of impulses sublime.

Thus sensitive must be the Monk, though pale