Excerpt from A Complete Collection of the English Poems Which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge, Vol. 2: 1859-1893 Ah, might the finite know thy boundless mind, And search out all the wisdom which assigned The varying measure of our mortal fates, The golden dawning and the doom of states; That sets one soul a regal star on high. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.