WHEREIN TO INHABIT EARTH WITH HER IS FELICITY ENOUGH SINCE HE CAN ENRICH HIS SENSES FOLLOWING HER STEPS, HER STAR

Soul, so endowed, so variously endowed
To think, to write, to speak, read, see and hear!
Eyes drunk with her! And thou, devoted ear
Feeding the heart with drops of golden cloud!
Your good star rules: if that path, steep and proud,
And still so difficult, were void of her,
However gained, her glance had not flashed there,
Nor had you found her footprint where grass glowed.
Now with the light so luminous, sign so sure,
It were unworthy on the way to fail
Or wander, the brief way which crowns you pure.
That better course essay, desire, assail!
Pierce, O my soul, the vapour and the veil
Of her sweet scorn, pursue, ascend, endure!