The North Transept: The Psalms XXV

He sang of the commandments wise and true,
Which hold the Heavens and Earth in golden chain,
And man's delinquency to vengeance due,
That golden chain all powerless to retain,
By which he might those blissful seats regain.
He sang of things before his spirit brought,
Visions of God, and mansions far from pain :
Nor fathom'd half his labouring fancy wrought,
Lost in the Infinite of his own holier thought.