“The Fathers are in dust, yet live to God:”⁠— + 

So says the Truth; as if the motionless clay + 

Still held the seeds of life beneath the sod, + 

Smouldering and struggling till the judgment-day. + 

And hence we learn with reverence to esteem + 

Of these frail houses, though the grave confines; + 

Sophist may urge his cunning tests, and deem + 

That they are earth;⁠—but they are heavenly shrines. + 