II.

What a sublime discovery 't was to make the Universe universal egotism, That all's ideal--_all ourselves!_--I'll stake the World (be it what you will) that _that's_ no schism. Oh Doubt!--if thou be'st Doubt, for which some take thee, But which I doubt extremely--thou sole prism Of the Truth's rays, spoil not my draught of spirit! Heaven's brandy, though our brain can hardly bear it.