ORIGIN OF MAGNETISM UNKNOWN. 269 



appears as a great directing agent, though its origin is 

 unknown to us. 



That power which, like a potent spirit, guides 

 The sea-wide wanderers over distant tides, 

 Inspiring confidence where'er they roam, 

 By indicating still the pathway home ; 

 Through nature, quickeu'd by the solar beam, 

 Invests each atom with a force supreme, 

 Directs the cavern'd crystal in its birth, 

 And frames the mightiest mountains of the earth ; 

 Each leaf and flower by its strong law restrains, 

 And binds the monarch Man within its mystic chains. 



