{Culture and neither feel nor} understand

{Culture required to feel and}

{My simplest lay that to their memory}

{My least recondite lay, which memory}

{Perchance may cleave}; hard fate, which need not be

{May keep in trust }

Did justice mould the statutes of the land.

{A book time-cherished} and an honoured name

{A cherished volume }

Are high rewards, but bound not {Reason’s} claim.