To the poor shrinking stuff wherewith we are walled;

And, taking it for Nature, place in ban

Our Mother, as a Power wanton-willed,

The shame and baffler of the soul of man,

The recreant, reptilious. Do thou build

Thy mind on her foundations in earth's bed;

Behold man's mind the child of her keen rod,

For teaching how the wits and passions wed