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enlarge our capacities, and give us still more noble and 

 just ideas of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God. 

 This marvellous universe is so full of wonders, so teems 

 with objects of latent beauty, that perhaps eternity alone 

 will open up and develop sufficient opportunities to enable 

 us to survey and admire and appreciate them all. 



" And lives the man, whose universal eye 

 Has swept at once th' unbounded scheme of things ; 

 Mark'd their dependence so, and firm accord, 

 As with unfaltering accent to conclude 

 That this availeth nought? Has any seen 

 The mighty chain of beings, lessening down 

 From infinite perfection to the brink 

 Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss! 

 From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns? 

 Till then, alone let zealous praise ascend, 

 And hymns of holy wonder, to that Power, 

 Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, 

 As on our smiling eyes his servant sun." THOMSON. 



