Aspects of humanity, brokenly mirrored in the ever-swelling current of human speech ...

ASPECTS OF HUMANITr. 35 If you decide, that sense and thought Are shallow semblances With you, beneath which range, unsought, Soul-sating ecstasies; What trespass to complete the view,u And paint the bliss depraved Which careless and profane pursue, Within their souls enslaved? 5O0 And you, ILtrust, can grant to me, That, to such wealth deep-stored,w You note some true analogy In that ethereal hoard, Which, gendered through the blue profound By search-defying POWER, Joining the rain-cloud's mazy round, And sinking with the shower, Where less profuse, more freely flows, To each more slavish view, 520 Till in Earth's petty sprouts it shows The zenith-fullness true i (27) "Earth's petty sprouts I still evoke; Seeking one more, in fine, Of oracles unerring, spoke At Nature's ancient shrine: How from the Soul's consummate sphere Men justly may pretend, That, even in their coarser cheer, They evermore depend 530 Upon the. constant skill divine Of all-embracing schemes, To ratify each fair design Which forethought crudely dreams, Though Reason's delegated hand Some portions may compose,

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