Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.