Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

The timely dew of sleep.

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.