Eternity

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass?

Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye will say, it is eternity! This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there The columns of the heavenly palaces.