How Soon Hath Time, The

What Can 'scape The Eye Of God, All-seeing, Or Deceive His Heart. Omniscient!

One Sip Of This Will Bathe The Drooping Spirits In Delight, Beyond The Bliss Of Dreams.

How Oft, In Nations Gone Corrupt, And By Their Own Devices Brought Down To Servitude, That Man Chooses Bondage Before Liberty. Bondage With Ease Before Strenuous Liberty.

His Rod Revers'd, And Backward Mutters Of Dissevering Power.

And Storied Windows Richly Dight, Casting A Dim Religious Light.