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  • Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
    Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
    Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
    Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
    In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
    To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
    The temple of the Power whom all obey,
    That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
    Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

    James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322