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Quick to believe, and slow to comprehend, Like children, unto all the teacher taught Submissively an easy ear they lend: And to the font at once he might have brought These converts, if the Father had not thought Theirs was a case for wise and safe delay, Lest lightly learnt might lightly be forgot; And meanwhile due instruction day by day Would to their opening minds the sense of truth convey.

Of this they reck'd not whether soon or late; For overpowering wonderment possest Their faculties; and in this new estate Strange sights and sounds and thoughts well nigh opprest Their sense, and raised a turmoil in the breast Resenting less of pleasure than of pain; And sleep afforded them no natural rest, But in their dreams, a mixed disordered train, The busy scenes of day disturb'd their hearts again.