OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, To the foil'd searching of mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguessed-at.-Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, MATTHEW ARNOLD. |