All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame: 270 Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns: To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all. 280 X. Cease then, nor Order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit--in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as bless'd as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 290 All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT. * * * * * VARIATIONS. In former editions, VER 64-- Now wears a garland, an Egyptian god. Altered as above for the reason given in the note. After VER. 68 the following lines in first edit.-- If to be perfect in a certain sphere, What matters, soon or late, or here or there? The blest to-day is as completely so As who began ten thousand years ago. After VER. 88 in the MS.-- No great, no little; 'tis as much decreed That Virgil's gnat should die as Caesar bleed. In the first folio and quarto:-- What bliss above He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy bliss below. After VER. 108 in the first edition:-- But does he say the Maker is not good, Till he's exalted to what state he would: Himself alone high Heaven's peculiar care, Alone made happy when he will, and where? VER. 238, first edition-- Ethereal essence, spirit, substance, man. After VER. 282 in the MS.-- Reason, to think of God when she pretends, Begins a censor, an adorer ends. EPISTLE II. ARGUMENT. OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL.