Him gracious Heaven in pity to mankind
Sent from its star-pav'd court (so sung beneath
His ivy'd oak of yore the Druid sage)
And nam'd him SCIENCE: first on Asian clime
He settled, there where proud Euphrates rolls
Amid Chaldaean plains, or on the bank
Of Pharian Nile; there he his favourite seat
Long choosing, soften'd with refinements meet
The savage genius of mankind, and taught
With awful laws to curb licentious guilt,
To build the wall girt city, and to frame
The peaceful league of blest society
With all the sweet civilities of life.