Poems with rhymes of derives

From parents each his taste and turn derives:
But most of all trades now Pandora's thrives;

And not the lowliest hand that drives
Or share or loom, if so it be
Of British strain, but thence derives

Since thus the Gift its origin derives
(How much of its first character survives

That man, the master of this globe, derives
His right of empire over all that lives.

Up to the hills I lift mine eyes,
Th' eternal hills beyond the skies;
Thence all her help my soul derives;

Life evolves as a whole, regardless of the individual lives.
And the meaning of that is what?
It's definitely not an answer that one easily derives.