INTRODUCTION. [Lesson i. 



ture which relate to the earth we inhabit : thus 

 shall we 



See through this vast extended theatre 



Of skill divine, what shining marks appear ! 



Creating power is all around exprest, 



The GOD discover'd, and his care confest : 



Nature's high birth her heav'nly beauties shew : 



By every feature we the parent know. 



Th' expanded spheres, amazing to the sight, 



Magnificent with stars, and globes of light; 



The glorious orbs which heav'n's bright host compose . 



Th' imprison'd sea, resistless ebbs and flows ; 



The fluctuating fields of liquid air, 



With all the curious meteors hov'ring there, 



And the wide regions of the land proclaim, 



The POW'R DIVINE that rais'd the mighty frame. 



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