Rate not the extension of the human mind
By the plebeian standard of mankind,
But by the size of those gigantic few,
Whom  and  still offer to our view;
Or  well-deserving equal praise,
Parent of heroes too in better days.
Why should I try her num'rous sons to name
By verse, law, eloquence consign'd to fame?
Or who have forc'd fair Science into sight,
Long lost in darkness, and afraid of light.
O'er all superior, like the solar ray
First  usher'd in the dawning day,
And drove the mists of sophistry away;
Pervaded nature with amazing force,
Following experience still throughout his course,
And finishing at length his destin'd way,
To  he bequeathed the radiant lamp of day.