Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep 110

Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind,

That, deaf and silent, read’st the eternal deep,

Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,—

Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!

On whom those truths do rest, 115

Which we are toiling all our lives to find,

In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;[324]

Thou, over whom thy Immortality

Broods like the Day, a Master o’er a Slave,