To the Utilitarians

Avaunt this œconomic rage!
What would it bring?--an iron age,
Where Fact with heartless search explored
Shall be Imagination’s Lord,
And sway with absolute controul
The god-like Functions of the Soul.
Not thus can knowledge elevate
Our Nature from her fallen state.
With sober Reason Faith unites
To vindicate the ideal rights
Of human-kind--the tone agreeing
Of objects with internal seeing,
Of effort with the end of Being.