CANTO HI. PROGRESS OF THE MIND. 107 



The impatient Senses, goaded to contract, 

 Forge new ideas, changing as they act; 

 And, in long streams dissever'd, or concrete 

 In countless tribes, the fleeting forms repeat. 

 Which rise excited in Volition's trains, 

 Or link the sparkling rings of Fancy's chains; 

 Or, as they flow from each translucent source, 

 Pursue Association's endless course, 



" Hence when the inquiring hands with contact fine 

 Trace on hard forms the circumscribing line; 280 



Which then the language of the rolling eyes 

 From distant scenes of earth and heaven supplies; 

 Those clear ideas of the touch and sight 

 Rouse the quick sense to anguish or delight; 

 Whence the fine power of IMITATION springs, 

 And apes the outlines of external things ; 

 With ceaseless action to the world imparts 



All moral virtues, languages, and arts. 



All moral virtues, 1. 288. See the sequel of this canto 1, 453. on 



