Befilm

As the rod furnishes the only royal road to learning, so the world's neglect offers the man who has not patience and courage for the beaten track, a short-cut to common sense; happy if egotism have not so befilmed his mental sight, that the iron finger points in vain the upward path!

Every honest effort to be and do right develops sight. Every determination to be and do wrong, befilms it. The voice of the upper Universe cries "be clean."

Her rose sways, lifts from where she dropped it, / Enlarges, floats as though ripples propped it; / While visibly as on chill air breathing / Fragrance transforms to a rosy mist; / Which halo-sphere befilms with wreathing / Trails of pink and amethyst.