If the foolish call them 'flowers'

      Need the wiser tell?

If the savans 'classify' them,

      It is just as well!

Those who read the Revelations

      Must not criticise

Those who read the same edition

      With beclouded eyes!

Could we stand with that old Moses

      Canaan denied,—

Scan, like him, the stately landscape

      On the other side,—

Doubtless we should deem superfluous

      Many sciences

Not pursued by learnèd angels

      In scholastic skies!

Low amid that glad Belles lettres

      Grant that we may stand,

Stars, amid profound Galaxies,

      At that grand 'Right hand'!