To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.