XV.] FIXRD, STAHS, &C. f3 



less degree of creating power, our earth would 

 have received much more light from only one ad^ 

 ditional moon. 



And canst then think, poor worm, these orbs of ligkt, 



In size immense, in number infinite, 



Were made for thee alone, to twinkle in thy sight? 



Presumptuous mortal! can thy nerves descry, 



How far from thee they roll, from thee how high? 



With all thy boasted knowledge canst thon see 



Their various beauty, order, harmony? 



If not then sure they were not made for thee. 



BASER 



Instead, then, of one sun and one world only 

 in the universe, as the unscientific suppose, our 

 contemplations induce us to acknowledge that 

 there must be an inconceivable number of suns 

 and of systems of planets revolving round them, 

 dispersed through the infinitely wide expanse of 

 boundless space; insomuch that were our sun, 

 with all the planets about it, annihilated, they 

 would be no more missed by an eye that could 

 take in the whole creation, than a drop of water 

 from the wide ocean- 



M Our single system is asuougfct in estimate 



" When balaoc'd with the heatr*ns : greater the specfc 

 M Which on the sun-beam dances, when compar'd 

 " With Taurus, or the Alps, or Caucasus ; 

 14 Or on the blade the dew-drop to the ea." 



These reBections tend to excite a deep con- 

 sciousness of our own inferiority. Who can help 

 exclaiming with David after a similar contempla- 



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