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BOOK XIV.] Resemblance of that glorious faculty

That higher minds bear with them as their own.

This is the very spirit in which they deal

With the whole compass of the universe:

They from their native selves can send abroad

Kindred mutations; for themselves create

A like existence; and, whene'er it dawns

Created for them, catch it, or are caught

By its inevitable mastery,

Like angels stopped upon the wing by sound

Of harmony from Heaven's remotest spheres.

Them the enduring and the transient both

Serve to exalt; they build up greatest things

From least suggestions; ever on the watch,

Willing to work and to be wrought upon,

They need not extraordinary calls

To rouse them; in a world of life they live,

By sensible impressions not enthralled,

But by their quickening impulse made more prompt

To hold fit converse with the spiritual world,

And with the generations of mankind

Spread over time, past, present, and to come,

Age after age, till Time shall be no more.

Such minds are truly from the Deity,

For they are Powers; and hence the highest bliss