"As thro' the Artist's intervening Glass, / Our Eye observes the distant Planets pass; /  A little we discover; but allow, / That more remains unseen, than Art can show: / So whilst our Mind it's Knowledge wou'd improve; / (It's feeble Eye intent on Things above) / High as We may, We lift our Reason up, / By Faith directed, and confirm'd by Hope: / Yet are We able only to survey / Dawnings of Beams, and Promises of Day."
Charity. A Paraphrase of the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. [from Tonson's Miscellanies]
Text from <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, Ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).<br>
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See also <u>Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part. Containing a Collection of Original Poems, With Several New Translations. By the most Eminent Hands</u>. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1704), pp. 205-9. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gg8UAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;