Exalted Mind! whose Character doth bear
The first Idea of Perfection, whence
Adam’s came, and stands so, how canst appear
In words? that only tell what here-
Tofore hath been; thou need’st as deep a sense
As prophecy, since there’s no difference
In telling what thou art, and what shall be:
Then pardon me that Rapture do profess,
At thy outside, that want, for what I see,
Description, if here amaz’d I cesse
Thus—-
Yet grant one Question, and no more, crav’d under
Thy gracious leave, How, if thou would’st express
Thyself to us, thou should’st be still a wonder?
(Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury)
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