LESSON XV. 



ON THE FIXED STARS, WITH REFLECTIONS 

 ON THE IMMENSITY OF THE V*lll r KSE. 



Who turns bis eye on Nature's midnight face 

 Rut must inquire " What hand behind tin 1 . s cc-nv, 

 ' What arm Almighty, put these wheeling globes 

 " In motion, and wound up the vjxst machine ? 

 " Who rounded in his palm those spacious orb. 1 ! ? 

 " Who bowl'd them flaming through the dark profound, 

 "And set the bosom of old night on lire?" 

 Nature's Controulcr, Author, Guide, mid End ! 



YOUNG. 



V\HEN you, my young friends, consider the 

 unwieldy size of those celestial bodies on which we 

 have already descanted, and reflect upon the asto- 

 nishing rapidity of some of their motions j surely 

 you must entertain very high ideas of the GREAT 

 POWER which first launched them in the illimi- 

 table void, and causes their motions to continue 

 through the flux of so many thousand years ; none 

 having yet mistaken their way, or wandered from 

 their destined paths : on the contrary, their ro- 

 tations still proceed in such exquisite regularity 

 and harmony as is best adapted to the perfection 

 of the whole. What awful power and adorable 

 goodness is here displayed ! But our reflections on 



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