Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee Defecates to a pure transparency, That intercepts no light and adds no stain -- There Reason is, and then begins her reign! But alas! [Concludes with a passage in Italian from Dante's Paradiso, Canto I, translated into Enlish by Henry Francis Cary]: With false information thou thyself Makest dull; so that thou seest not the thing Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off. |