I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

"One impulse from a vernal wood

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.