And further; by contemplating these Forms In the relations which they bear to Man, He shall discern, how, through the various means The spiritual Presences of absent Things, Trust me, that for the Instructed, time will come Of human suffering, or of human joy. For them shall all things speak of Man, they read Their duties in all forms; and general laws, And local accidents, shall tend alike To rouse, to urge; and, with the will, confer Auxiliar to divine. That change shall clothe The burthen of existence. Science then Shall be a precious Visitant; and then, And only then, be worthy of her name. For then her Heart shall kindle; her dull Eye, But taught with patient interest to watch Shall it forget that its most noble use, Its most illustrious province, must be found In furnishing clear guidance, a support So build we up the Being that we are; Thus deeply drinking-in the Soul of Things Of order and of good. Whate'er we see, Or indirect shall tend to feed and nurse 0 3 Our faculties, shall fix in calmer seats Here closed the Sage that eloquent harangue, Which hostile spirits silently allow; Of One accustomed to desires that feed fle Eva On fruitage gathered from the Tree of Life, A passionate intuition; whence the Soul, The Sun, before his place of rest were reached, Had yet to travel far, but unto us, To us who stood low in that hollow Dell He had become invisible, a pomp Leaving behind of yellow radiance spread Adown the path which from the Glen had led The funeral Train, the Shepherd and his Mate Were seen descending; - forth in transport ran Our little Page; the rustic Pair approach; And in the Matron's aspect may be read A plain assurance that the words which told Had done to her humanity no wrong. But we are kindly welcomed; promptly served mystic. With ostentatious zeal. Along the floor Of the small Cottage in the lonely Dell A grateful Couch was spread for our repose; END OF THE FOURTH BOOK. 서 |