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Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes,

Rivers unknown to song; where first the sun

Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam

Flames on th' Atlantic isles : 'tis nought to me :

Since God is ever present, ever felt,

In the void waste as in the city full;

And where He vital breathes there must be joy.

When even at last the solemn hour shall come,

And wing my mystic flight to future worlds,

I cheerful will obey; there with new powers,

Will rising wonders sing : I cannot go

Where universal love not smiles around,

Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their sons;

From seeming evil still educing good,

And better thence again, and better still,

In infinite progression. But I lose

Myself in Him, in light ineffable !

Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.

Thomson.

Ax length I play'd them one as frank,

For time at last sets all things even— And if we do Lut watch the hour, There never yet was human power

Which could evade, if unforgiven,

The patient search, and vigil long,

Of him who treasures up a wrong.

Byron.