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They pleased to make or take him for; and their

Imagination's quite enough for that: So that the outline's tolerably fair, They fill the canvas up- and “verbum sat."

If once their phantasies be brought to bear

Upon an object, whether sad or playful,

They can transfigure brighter than a Raphael.

XVII.

Adeline, no deep judge of character, Was apt to add a colouring from her

own:

'Tis thus the Good will amiably err, And eke the Wise, as has been often shown.

Experience is the chief philosopher, But saddest when his science is well known:

And persecuted Sages teach the Schools Their folly in forgetting there are fools.

XVIII.

Was it not so, great Locke? and greater Bacon?

Great Socrates? And thou, Diviner still,1

Whose lot it is by Man to be mistaken, And thy pure creed made sanction of all ill?

Redeeming Worlds to be by bigots shaken,

How was thy toil rewarded? We might fill

Volumes with similar sad illustrations, But leave them to the conscience of the nations.

XIX.

I perch upon an humbler promontory, Amidst Life's infinite variety:

As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity, I say that I mean, by "Diviner still,' CHRIST. If ever God was man or man God

he was both. I never arraigned his creed, but the use or abuse-made of it. Mr Canning one day quoted Christianity to sanction negro slavery, and Mr Wilberforce had little to say in reply. And was Christ crucified, that black men might be scourged? If so, He had better been born a Mulatto, to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or at least salvation.

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