text:  How glorious must have been the soil which could bring to maturity a harvest of such teeming abundance! There are probably many among us who can even now remember with exultation when the first ray of light was cast on their minds from the genius of Spenser--as the first glimmering of day comes to him whose sealed eyes are opened to the light of heaven discovering objects at first dimly and then more clearly we at length gazed in wonder and in joy on a creation vaster far and far more lovely than it had entered into our hearts to conceive