Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.