'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat to
peep at such a world; to see the stir of great Babel,
and not feel the crowd; to hear the roar she sends
through all her gates at a safe distance, where the
dying sound falls a soft murmur on the uninjured
ear. Thus sitting and surveying thus at ease the
globe and all its concerns, I seem advanced to some
more than mortal height, that liberates me and
exempts me from them all.