VIII.

From this entangling labyrinthine maze

Of doctrine, creed, and theory; from vague

Vain speculations; the detested plague

Of spiritual pride, and vile affrays

Sectarian, good Lord, deliver me!

Nature! thy placid monitory glory

Shines uninterrogated, while the story

Goes round of this and that theology,

This creed, and that, till patience close the list.

Once more on Carronben’s wind-shrilling height

To sit in sovereign solitude, and quite

Forget the hollow world—a pantheist

Beyond Bonaventura! This were cheer

Passing the tedious tale of shallow pulpiteer.

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