Excerpt from Poems Pirit of rich perfection and calm power, That from those heights where thou art throned apart Crownest our life, whereof thou art the flower; Balm of the human heart, Devotion's rarest dower, Voice of triumphant Nature, absolute Art! Dim Governor, whose ministers divine, Music, and literature, and plastic form, Execute thine omnipotent design, And the brute forces storm Of Chaos, and to thine All-conquering ends their mutinous rage con form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.