Chapter XXXV

They gained the height where now the Muses reign--
Where now Brown’s bounty[21] to the human mind
Links earth and heaven; the fruit of honest gain
Moulding the youthful soul, by taste refined,
To truth’s eternal quest.--How poor and vain,
To such high bounty, seems a meaner kind;--
But this in after times;--for forests then
Mantled the height and swarmed with savage men.

[21] Brown University.