13 CONCERNING SECT. II. 



of metals, and to " the place of fapphires ; -und there is 

 nothing hid from the heat thereof" 



What bleflings does this bounteous planet pour 

 On the glad heart of man, when rolling round 

 His azure road, he fcatters as he flies, 

 To warm his raptur'd bofom, light and joy ! 



Newcomb. 



The sun is the fountain of light. This glori- 

 ous object: of creation, as a luminary, gives chearful- 

 nefs both in nature and appearance to all things : If 

 light is not fo necefTary to our exiilence as heat, life 

 would yet be miferable without it. 



As to vegetation, we may obferve, without light 

 plants get always fickly, and would not exift long if 

 deprived of it. Light, philofophically confidered, is 

 half their nourifhment. All plants turn to the light 

 as to a powerful attraction, or, as if co'nfcious how 

 necefTary it is to their exigence. Light at the fame 

 time that it heats, doth wonderfully rarify and raife the 

 Tap. It is the fame with JLther, and it fo mixes with 

 other bodies, as to enter into their compofition, and 

 encreafe their weight. The aromatic flavour of veget- 

 ables feems to depend upon the fun's light as much as 

 colours do. 



The phyfical properties of that etherial fubltance, 

 which is fo fubtle and pervading as light y we may well 

 believe to be various and wonderful, though incon« 

 eeivable. 



Behold the light emitted from the fun, 



What more familiar, and what more unknown ? 



While by its fpreading radiance it reveals 



All nature's face, it ftill itfclf conceals. 



How fwift th* effulgent emanations fly 



Thro' the blue gulph of interpofing flcy ! 



Millions of ?niles i fo rapid is their race 



To cheer the earth, they in few moment t pafs. 



Amaaijig 



