"See, in their course, each transitory thought /  Fixed by his touch a lasting essence take; / Each dream, in fancy's airy colouring wrought, /  To local symmetry and life awake!"
Stanzas to Mr Bentley
Ed. Roger Lonsdale. <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u>. London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972