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malcules, to which that drop would be an ocean, 

 contains in itself an infinite problem, of which 

 God omnipresent is the only solution." l 



" I tell thee that those living things 

 To whom the fragile blade of grass 



That springeth in the morn 



And perisheth ere noon, 



Is an unbounded world 

 I tell thee that those viewless beings, 

 Whose mansion is the smallest particle 

 Of the impassive atmosphere, 



Enjoy and live like man ; 



And the mimitest throb 

 That through their frame diffuses 



The slightest, faintest motion, 



Is fixed and indispensable 



As the majestic laws 

 That rule yon rolling orbs." 



1 Coleridge's Lay Sermons. 



