"Farewell, for clearer ken designed,  / The dim-discovered tracts of mind: / Truths which, from action's paths retired,  / My silent search in vain required!"
The Manners. An Ode
Ed. Roger Lonsdale. <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u>. London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972