Lausanne! and Ferney! ye have been the abodes

Of Names which unto you bequeathed a name; [22.B.]

Mortals, who sought and found, by dangerous roads,

A path to perpetuity of Fame:

They were gigantic minds, and their steep aim

Was, Titan-like, on daring doubts to pile

Thoughts which should call down thunder, and the flame

Of Heaven again assailed—if Heaven, the while,

On man and man's research could deign do more than smile.